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How To Make 

Our Mental Pictures 
Gome True 



A SERIES OF EASY LESSONS 
IN THE ART OF VISUALIZING 



BY 



GEORGE SCHUBEL 



L. N. FOWLER & CO. 
7 Imperial Arcade, Ludgate Circus 
London, E.C., England 



PUBLISHED BY 

THE ELIZABETH TOWNE CO., Inc. 

HOLYOKE, MASS. 
1922 






Copyright, 1922, by 
George Schubel 



Printed in U. S. A, 



MAY -5 1922 
iCl.A6o9968 



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PREFACE 

Among the imaginative stories of our child- 
hood days, who does not recall the charm which 
Aladdin and his wonderful lamp held for lis ? 
How marvelous were the things which came to 
pass each time that he rubbed it ! How often 
in our childish imagination did we wish for 
just such a wonder-lamp which would provide 
us with all the things which our hearts desired ! 

Yet this fancy of childhood is father to a 
wonderful scientific fact possible of being dem- 
onstrated mentally, and of being universally 
used to satisfy every requirement of the human 
heart. 

We are each one of us a mental wonder-lamp 
manifesting a form of power more marvelous 
than ever was the light which shone from 
Aladdin ^s lamp. 

What is this form of power of which we 
speak ? For want of something more compre- 
hensive we call it the visualizing power of the 
mind. Yet it is more than this. Its action in- 
volves a whole series of manifestations. We 



PREFACE 



observe that it formulates, differentiates, spe- 
cializes, chemicalizes and projects itself in ns 
and through us, so that by means of it our 
hearts' desires are formed into thought- 
images, and then by a further process of dif- 
ferentiation and specialization they are pro- 
jected and materialized until they become the 
visible objects of our outwardly visible world. 

What do we know about the nature of this 
form of mental power? Very little. It is 
barely as yet within the grasp of our compre- 
hension. But we have taken cognizance of 
its operation and results just as we have of 
electricity, radio-activity and other forms of 
power. 

In what manner does it operate ? The ques- 
tion is best answered by observing its inner- 
conscious, interconscious and objectively un- 
conscious working in us and thru us. 

In our lives we have noted very definitely 
that certain things which we have strongly 
desired and held as thought-images in our con- 
sciousness, have after a time " come true.'' 
From the seemingly invisible side of things 
they have made their appearance on the out- 
wardly visible side of things. This is not a 
miracle. It is not some rare phenomenon. 



PREFACE 



It is not even unusual. It is simply the normal, 
continuous, unconscious functioning of this 
form of power. 

Our natural desires are spontaneously and 
continuously shaping themselves into objects 
of thought, and these into thought-images 
which are being impressed, developed and re- 
produced outwardly all the time. 

By its action upon mind-substance our de- 
sires, or mental images, become concrete, out- 
ward realities, visible to the physical eye. 
That is how ALL THINGS which we are able 
to see, touch and otherwise outwardly sense in 
this world have come into outward existence 
either in a universalized or individualized 
sense. 

Heretofore, this formulative process has 
been largely a haphazard one. Our needs, 
for the most part subconscious, have simply 
brought this power into action automatically 
in a perfectly natural way, with more or less 
outward success. But now, in mental science, 
we have begun to study the process by watch- 
ing its operation within ourselves and others, 
so that instead of an unregulated process it 
becomes one which can be regulated and con- 
trolled. 



8 PREFACE 



We have come to know the definite mental- 
mechanical action which is set in motion and 
the definite chemicalization which takes place ; 
that these can be placed on a basis where they 
can be intelligently and deliberately con- 
trolled so that we are able first to select our 
desires; secondly to consciously shape these 
desires into objects of thought, and to establish 
them as thought-images in our consciousness ; 
and then from this point on we can deliberately 
exercise this power so that what we desire and 
see inwardly, can be reproduced outwardly as 
a part of our outward world of things. 

We are actually ahle to see inner things into 
outward existence. 

There is no doubt whatever that this su- 
preme form of mental power which we call 
visualizing, will be formulated finally into a 
definite and exact science to be used for all 
the legitimate purposes covered in this book, 
and in a consecrated way. May the following 
pages serve as definite outposts leading to this 
end. 

— The Author 



INTRODUCTION 

By Mrs. Genevieve Behrend 

\ I FIND a definite joy in the fact that the first 
of George SchubePs series of books on visual- 
izing has been put into printed form. There is 
a thirst for knowledge and an increasing need 
at the present day for books of this kind. Each 
day the study of mental science is becoming 
more and more resorted to by those persons 
who, discovering the futility of their struggle 
against the laws of our increasingly complex 
life of today J are learning to adjust themselves, 
and to work ivitli these laws. When this is 
done they find that they are working in har- 
mony with a power which enables them to ac- 
complish what otherwise would be seemingly 
impossible things. 

To those who are but slightly acquainted 
with the universal truths of applied mental 
science, I recommend this book. The author 
was one of my early students, and his own 
wonderful prosperity and success in business 
and financial affairs is, to my mind, the best 

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10 INTRODUCTION 



demonstration of the facts which he offers to 
others in this present volume. He has given 
us a clear, analytical exposition of visualizing, 
and any imagined veil of mysticism which may 
have surrounded this subject in the past, has 
been removed under the strong and compre 
hensive light which he has thrown upon it. 

In my own experience, visualizing for prac- 
tical purposes came as an inspiration after 
reading Judge Tro ward's works on Mental 
Science. It provided the necessary means for 
my sojourn in England and my extensive stud- 
ies as Troward's personal pupil, and, in the 
six years of my work in New York I have dem- 
onstrated the practicability of this power 
with most remarkable results personally and 
for others. 

Visualizing is nothing more than the process 
of the impersonal, universal, unspecialized, un- 
differentiated Mind seeing itself into the 
specialized, the concrete, and the particular; 
bringing the inward seemingly unseen uni- 
verse with all its multitudinous and ever-shap- 
ing forms into outwardly visible existence. It 
is a specialized operation from a specific center 
for the specific purpose of bringing substance 
into outward concrete form, and all that is 



INTRODUCTION 11 



;iecessary is for us to personalize this power 
::or our particular needs. 

When thus deliberately applied, visualizing 
can be made to do away with hospitals, 
asylums, prisons, charitable homes, and insti- 
tutions now devoted to the correction of pov- 
erty, disease and crime. The desire of each in- 
dividual heart whether for health, wealth, love, 
harmony, peace, beauty, happiness or whatever 
other form of good may be sought, can be ma- 
terialized into the outward without breaking 
a single law of society, without injury to one- 
self or anyone else, or without taking anything 
away from anybody else. 

Visualizing serves as the means of a never- 
ending source of supply for all. We are able 
to get all that we want out of the everywhere 
of substance from which our pictures take 
form. The limitlessness of what we may have 
out of this unlimited immensity is propor- 
tioned only by the limit of our own consent to 
or recognition of these resources. 

In conclusion may I say that the time will 
come when visualizing will be taught in the 
schools and universities of the world as a natu- 
ral science, thereby providing a single, direct 
and orderly means for securing all those 



12 INTRODUCTION 



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things of life which, we need for our wel 
fare and happiness here. It is the greatest 
effort and time saver that has so far come to 
the consciousness of man because by means of 
it, depending upon our ability of applicationi 
we can see into materialization all those goo 
things which we now obtain by such laborious 
mental and manual efforts. 



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CONTENTS 
PART L — MECHANICS OF VISUALIZING 

PAGE 

Photography of the Mind 17 

Substance out of which Our Mental Pictures 

ARE MADE 21 

iHow Our Mental Pictures First Take Form . 25 

Mind's Photographic Studio 31 

True Camera of the Mind 32 

Mental Camera-eye 34 

>Dark Chamber of the Mind 38 

Will Serves as Mental Tripod 42 

Mind's Range-finder 44 

Enlarging Camera-device of Mind 45 

Mind's Camera-shutter 47 

PART II. — CHEMISTRY OF VISUALIZING 

Sensitized Mind-film 50 

Mind's Object of Light 56 

Mind's Image of Light 58 

Mental-chemical Developing Agencies .... 60 

Mental-chemical Process Explained 69 

IHow AN Imaged Thought is Impressed .... 73 
How AN Impressed Thought passes into Mental 

Solution 84 

Developing Room of the Mind 99 

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14 CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Subconscious Developing Process Explained 102 
How Our Invisible Thought Develops 

Outwardly 109 

Possible to Review a Developing Mental 

Picture 113 

Developing Process can be Facilitated .... 116 

PART III. — TECHNIQUE OF VISUALIZING 

Preparing our Thought-object for Reproduc- 
tion 126 

Pouring Light upon our Thought-object . . . 129 

Seeing our Thought-object in Reflection . . 130 

Pouring more Mental-light upon our Thought 131 

Establishing our Correct Viewpoint 135 

Focusing upon our Imaged Thought 138 

Impressing our Imaged Thought 140 

Our Thought Impression in Solution 142 

Reviewing our Developing Picture from Time 

TO Time 144 

Watching for Outward Indications 146 

Strengthening our Developing Thought . . . 151 

Conclusion 156 



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PART I 
MECHANICS OF VISUALIZING 



How to Make Our Mental 
Pictures Come True 



CHAPTER I 

PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE MIND 

IN establishing a basis for the study of visu- 
alizing, we can think of no more simple be- 
ginning than to compare it to photography. 

The theory, the mechanical principles and 
the technique applying to both are the same. 
Visualizing is the inner process, while pho- 
tography merely is the outer process. Or we 
can say that the one is the hidden process, the 
other is the hidden process revealed. 

In visualizing, a method of mental operation 
is employed which brings into play a group of 
principles operating innerly in mind; pho- 
tography employs a method of operation which 
brings into play this same group of principles, 

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18 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

the difference being that they are operating 
outwardly in reproducing outward things. 

The various mental movements necessary in 
reproducing the thought-images or mental ob- 
jects of our consciousness are no different as 
we shall see from the various movements 
necessary on the part of the photographer in 
reproducing an outer object. 

Briefly stated, visualizing is an inner appli- 
cation of certain principles of which we can 
become cognizant by observing the correspond- 
ing outer application which we call photog- 
raphy. In fact, photography is visualizing 
made outwardly visible to our objective senses, 
it is visualizing visualized into outward form 
so that outward things can he reproduced for 
us in the same manner in which th^y are re- 
produced in the mind. Hence, if we begin our 
studies by an understanding of the theory and 
working processes of photography, we will be- 
gin to understand the theory and working 
processes involved in mental-photography, and 
at the same time we will lay the basis for an 
exact and definite science of visualizing which 
will serve us at all times and for every purpose. 

We know that when we apply the principles 
of photography ;. when we operate the mechan- 
ical parts of the camera — the lens, the range- 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 19 

finder, the shutter, in a certain way ; and when 
we apply the proper chemical elements in a 
proper manner, then we are able to reproduce 
an object with unerring accuracy. So with 
the mental-mechanical and chemical principles 
and faculties involved in reproducing our de- 
sires and thought-images. When we apply 
them correctly we will get outward results that 
are just as definite, just as truthful, just as 
accurate reproductions as those produced by 
the intelligent photographer. 

Of course, diligent study and application 
are necessary. The photographer could not 
be successful in his reproductions if he were 
not completely familiar with the essentials and 
methods involved in reproducing objects, and 
in the same manner we must be completely 
familiar with the essentials and methods in- 
volved in visualizing if we are to expect the 
same positive results. The law of cause and 
effect applies here as elsewhere. 

In addition, we need to helieve in the out- 
come of our work. Somewhat later we will 
touch more fully upon this point. Let us 
simply say here that we do not disbelieve the 
fact of photography ; we do not doubt that its 
employment will bring about certain definite 
results in the matter of reproduction. So, as 



20 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

we go forward in our studies we will find that 
there is as little occasion to disbelieve the fact 
of visualizing, or to doubt that its emplojonent 
in our affairs will bring about just as definite 
results. For the present it is sufficient to be- 
lieve that everything into which our desire can 
fashion itself already exists and has always 
existed as a paradigm in the pattern-mind of 
the Infinite, otherwise it could not be conceived 
or formulated in our own mind as an object. 
We can refer to photography itself, for 
instance, to make this more clear. The camera 
first of all had to be an object in some one's 
mind before it took outward form. Some one 
thought of it, or in other words pictured it 
before it could be assembled in the form of a 
camera which we can touch and see. So with 
all the other devices which are a part of 
photography. 

If then, the camera and all the other es- 
sentials of photography can reproduce and out- 
picture the object toward which they are di- 
rected, how much more easily is it possible for 
the inner photographic equipment of the mind 
under like suitable conditions to reproduce and 
outpicture the object of our hearts' desire 
toward which it is directed by means of proper 
thinking. 



CHAPTER II 

SUBSTANCE OUT OF WHICH OUR MENTAL 
PICTURES ARE MADE 

BEFORE entering upon a study of the me- 
chanical principles and technique in- 
volved in photography we are confronted with 
the same necessity which confronts the really 
good photographer. He must make himself fa- 
miliar with the facts with which his mechanics 
and technique must deal, and so must we. We 
must familiarize ourselves with those mental 
factors with which our mind-mechanics and 
technique deal. 

Let us see how this holds good in photogra- 
phy in order to apply it to our own study. We 
know that in photography the very first of 
these factors is tJie ohject which is to he re- 
produced. If the photographer has studied 
physical science he is familiar ^ with the fact 
that this so-called object or concrete thing is 
reducible by formula into a state of lesser and 
lesser density until it can be resolved back to its 
original state. He knows that if the formula 

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22 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

could be pursued, Ms object would be reduced 
to a point where it would become again a part 
of the universal substance to which physical 
science has given the name of ether. This all- 
pervading substance is believed to be the basis 
of all material objects. 

The study of visualizing must be based upon 
the same hypothesis except that it goes a step 
beyond that of physical science, and refers to 
a substance infinitely rarer as the basis of all 
things whatsoever hidden or revealed. 

The photographer, in pursuing his physical 
science studies is informed that the most dis- 
tinguishing quality of this ether-substance is 
light. Wherever ether is, light is, and since 
this radiant ether-substance is everywhere 
present, light is also everywhere present in all 
the reaches and immensity of infinite space. 
In fact, physical science will some day accept 
the fact that there can be no substance without 
light, and no light without substance. It is 
only a difference of vibration and tenuity^ 
which makes the seeming difference betweei 
what we know as pure light and matter, anc 
the student will so understand this when sub-j 
stance or light are hereafter interchangeably 
used. 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 23 

! In visualizing we learn this same fact about 
the infinitely rare, all-pervading, invisible sub- 
stance with which we are to deal mentally, 
namely that its most distinguishing quality is 
this same light but in a mode of vibration in- 
finitely rarer and finer than physical science 
can conceive. In fact, we are coming to find 
that what our very mind-substance is charged 
with is ambient quality in its purest state, act- 
ing upon, in, and through it. We speak of 
this " light of the mind " as being '' above the 
light of the sun '^ in rarity; we speak of it as 
the " unseen light that never shone on land 
or sea;" and its wonderfully luminous power 
is implied when we say that a certain person 
has " enlightened '' us, or when we say " light 
has been given us '' or ^^ light has been thrown 
upon the subject." Also, we speak of the 
" light of understanding," " the light of wis- 
dom," the " light of faith," and of a number 
of other illumined mental conditions and activ- 
ities qualified by this mental-light. The quali- 
fication in every instance is more than figura- 
tive. It is scientifically correct. So much so 
that we can say that this light of wisdom, un- 
derstanding and faith, is not only a qualifica- 
tion but that it is mind itself, and the primary 
basis of all mind-substance. 



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So we can say that in the same manner in 
which the outward light serves as the Imni- 
nons and vitalizing basis of the ether-sub- 
stance from which all things of the visible 
universe, including our physical selves, are 
formed, so in an infinitely rarer sense does the 
invisible light serve as the basis of that radi- 
ant mind-substance which we call life, spirit, 
energy or consciousness, and ,out of this light, 
as we shall subsequently see, our mental 
pictures take form. 



CHAPTER III 

HOW OUR MENTAL PICTURES FIRST 
TAKE FORM 

THE photographer studying physical sci- 
ence finds that this universal light is not 
only the primary basis of universal substance 
but the forming, specializing, differentiating 
and projecting power as well. He finds that 
this universal light forever is acting in, upon 
and through the universal undifferentiated 
substance which it itself is, so that it is for- 
ever in a state of spontaneous formulation, 
taking shape and character out of its ambient 
being according to the initial impulse given to 
its movement. 

In the most elemental physical sense then, 
we find an all-pervading infinite ocean of pure 
primary light, of an inconceivable rarity, con- 
tinuously acting upon and within itself in the 
nature of a movement which we know as vibra- 
tion, and which physical science first observes 
in the pure waves of light which are termed 
ether, and from this point it is more readily 

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26 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

comprehended in its forever separative and 
outwardly appearing process, until the point 
where the photographer finds a universe and 
a world of outwardly visible objects toward 
which he can level his photographic camera 
for purposes of reproduction. 

This is the manner in which light takes on 
form in the physical sense in which we recog- 
nize all outwardly visible objects including the 
immense universe and our more specialized 
selves; forever changing from the universal 
to the particular, from the unformed to the 
formed, from the undifferentiated to the dif- 
ferentiated, and from the unspecialized to the 
specialized. All visible objects are primarily 
of the substance of light, assuming shape and 
density according to the momentum of the out- 
push or initial movement coming from the in- 
visible sense-world to the visible sense-world 
so that trees, persons, hills, stars, landscapes 
and all else visible are but the differentiated 
effects of the one primary light impulsing 
upon its own impalpable substance, and formu- 
lating itself into literal objects of light but so 
compactly that these objects become separately 
visible to us in contrast to the more general 
light out of which they have been formed. 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 27 

, Now then, in flaying the basis for our visu- 
^izing studies, we go beyond these remotest 
points of physical science and of the senses, 
and apply this same observation in regard to 
light to ^the formation of our own selves. We 
say that the forming, specializing, differen- 
tiating and objectifying power, energy or life, 
call it what we will, is this same light operat- 
ing in an infinitely rarer invisible and inner 
manner ; forever acting upon, in and through 
its own unformed, unspecialized, and undif- 
ferentiated universal conscious substance so 
that it formulates, particularizes, specializes, 
differentiates and objectifies itself into indi- 
vidualized forms which we recognize as our 
individual objective selves or minds, shaping 
itself out of the universal objective sense- 
consciousness and becoming the individual 
objective sense-consciousness ; becoming in fact 
our very inner selves — objects of light — and 
in turn we can say that within ourselves this 
same continuous separative process of the light 
goes on, so that out of our inner illumined 
selves are formed our objects of thought — 
objects of light, which we qualify by the term 
" bright '^ thoughts and by other terms de- 
scriptive of the substance of light out of which 
they are formed. 



28 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

We become conscious of the initial move- 
ment or outpush of the mind-light substance 
shaping itself through us in its most primary 
sense as motion, connnotion, or as we are ac- 
customed to call it — emotion. When the im- 
pulse is forcible enough to motivate and sustain 
itself, a differentiation takes place in the form 
of what we ^ call desire. If our desire is suf- 
ficiently strong and vitalized, a further dif- 
ferentiation of the mind-light takes place spon- 
taneously or, in visualizing, deliberately, in 
the form of our objective thinking; establish- 
ing itself in the objective state of our conscious- 
ness as an ^ ^ object of light, ^^ an" enlightened '' 
idea or thought-object which, as we shall ob- 
serve later, we are able to see within us by re- 
flection and which by further specialization 
becomes reproduced outwardly as a thing. 
The process which results in this latter phe- 
nomenon is explained by the fact that the sub- 
stance of light within the mind forms itself 
outwardly by acting upon the substance of 
light outside of the mind, and this is the man- 
ner in which it is assumed that our thought- 
objects reproduce themselves in outward 
visible form in the things which we desire. 

This formulation of the light-substance of 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 29 

mind in us and throngh us is going on con- 
tinuously and spontaneously. It is a charac- 
teristic of our being; we cannot be without 
desires^ and we cannot experience a desire 
which does not seek to fornmlate itself into 
some sort of objective thinking. Our objective 
thinking formulates itself into an objective 
thought, and tve cannot knotv an objective 
thought tvhich does not move to differentiate 
itself from the inner invisible into the form 
of the outward visible thing toward which our 
desire primarily is directed. 

Our thought takes outtvard shape always 
and for this reason it is scientifically correct 
to say that " thoughts are things/' fashioned 
out of the only true substance of light out of 
which all things whatsoever visible or invis- 
ible are formed. 

In deliberative visualization for certain 
things of our hearts^ desire, we do not seek to 
change the natural spontaneous movement of 
this invisible universal formulating, differ- 
entiating and specializing characteristic of the 
light, life or energy acting upon and in and 
through us, but rather to fulfill it. 

To its activity we bring directivity; to its 
spontaneity we bring regulation and control, 



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and in this manner we bring to ourselves all 
already existing things which relate themselves 
to our inmost desires, together with their cir- 
cumstances and conditions, in an orderly and 
logical manner and in natural sequence. 



CHAPTER IV 

MIND^S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO 

IT is quite natural to understand that it 
would be of little value for the photogra- 
pher to see and comprehend his object if he had 
not some sort of mechanical equipment with 
which to project, focus and reproduce what he 
sees. So, too, it would be of little avail for us 
to be able to formulate our mental objects, and 
to comprehend them if we did not have some 
sort of mental-mechanism by means of which 
we could reproduce outwardly the thought- 
images held within the mind. 

For photographic purposes the photogra- 
pher has a well-equipped studio provided 
with settings, camera and all other es- 
sentials and materials. A similar inner equip- 
ment of the mind is found in what we call our 
objective state of consciousness serving us as 
an elaborate mental photographic studio pro- 
vided with all the mental-mechanical essentials 
and materials needed to image forth and re- 
produce our desires — our objects of thought. 

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CHAPTER V 

TRUE CAMERA OF THE MIND 

THE very first observation in comparing 
our mental-mechanical photographic out- 
fit with the outfit of the photographer is that 
the group of faculties assembled and brought 
into play objectively in visualizing constitutes 
a mental device corresponding perfectly with 
the photographer's camera. It is in fact an 
altogether true camera with a mental-mech- 
anism which operates unerringly in captur- 
ing thought-images whether ours or those of 
others; registering them faithfully upon the 
mind's sensitized film, and reproducing then] 
true to their original form. 

We find embodied in it all those subordinate 
and co-ordinate mechanical mind-principles 
such as the principle of the camera-eye, lens 
dark chamber, tripod, enlarging device, range- 
finder, camera-shutter, film and the other con 
trivances which we know as a part of thr 
camera. 

In the manner in which the camera catchei 

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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 33 

up and specializes within itself the universal 
light of the sun, and forms it into the im- 
prisoned light-images which upon development 
we know as photographs, so do the mechanical 
faculties which serve as our mental camera, 
collect together and specialize within our being 
the mind-light; shaping it into the thought- 
images which we recognize mentally. 

The principles involved in the use of the 
inner camera of the mind are the same as in 
the outer photographic camera, serving to 
focus, concentrate, transmit, illumine, reflect 
and impress the object to be reproduced. 



CHAPTER VI 

MENTAL CAMERA-EYE 

EXAMINING the photographer's camera 
in more detail, we find that its principal 
device is a lens or camera-eye situated in the 
very front of the camera. 

This photographic lens is nothing more, we 
may say, than an outward embodiment or ex- 
tension, in principle, of the more delicately 
fashioned lens of the physical eye, and the 
physical eye in turn is nothing more than the 
outward embodiment or extension in principle 
of the yet more indefinable single invisible 
" inner eye '^ or seeing faculty of the mind. 

Just as the function of the lens of the camera 
is not to see but to serve as an instrument 
through which to see, so with the ^^ single 
inner eye '' of the mind. 

In photography this is made possible in the 
following manner : 

The fine rays of the sun are continually pour- 
ing themselves in a steady stream of light 
against the more solid substances of light which 
we call material objects. But these rays, in 

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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 35 

pouring themselves against these objects, are 
" thrown back ^' or deflected again into space. 
Now when the camera-eye is leveled in the di- 
rection of a given object, the light which is fall- 
ing back from the object pours into the camera 
through the camera-eye. The lens of the 
camera-eye collects^ focuses and transmits this 
light into the dark chamber where it is estab- 
lished in a manner enabling the photographer 
to behold it as an exact UgJit-image or reflection 
of the outer object. 

This is equally true of the physical eye. It 
does not see but simply serves the purpose of 
concentrating and transmitting the light-rays 
of the sun deflected from the object toward 
which our eye was directed, so that we can 
behold the light in its combined, collected, 
established and projected form in our minds, 
as the exact light image or reflection of the 
outer object. 

Finally we find that the invisible inner 
" single eye '' serves in a similar manner in 
the mental-mechanical arrangement used con- 
sciously or unconsciously in visualizing. The 
infinitely finer rays of our illumined objective 
thinking are continually pouring themselves 
in a steady stream of mental-light against the 



36 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

more solid mind-substance or " object of our 
thought/' But as this stream of mental-light 
pours itself against the thought-object, it is 
thrown back or deflected, as it were. It is 
here that the invisible inner single eye of the 
mind catches, focuses and transmits this 
mental-light into the dark chamber of our 
being where it is assembled, so that the seeing 
principle within us is able to behold it as an 
exact light-image of the thought-object from 
which it is deflected. 

Often the '' light thrown upon a subject " 
existing in one mind is so illuminative that 
its reflection occurs not only in the mind in 
which the object of thought is being sustained, 
but in many other minds, so that the mental- 
light traveling from a person who is eluci- 
dating a certain thing will compel the exclama- 
tion " I see " from the other minds who have 
leveled and focused their inner mental eyes in 
the direction of the speaker's mind, and have 
thus caught the image in their own. The inner 
camera-eye of their minds has been able to see 
the objectified thought in its " true light '' 
by reflection; it has been able to concentrate 
and transmit this light and reassemble it into 
a definite symbol or light-image capable of 
being recognized by them. 



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Like the eye of the camera, the eye of the 
mind in visualizing is or can be made perfect 
and true. It will collect, transmit, assemble 
and reflect for us whatever projected thought- 
object we deliberately may choose in our visu- 
alizing work for reproduction. 



CHAPTER VII 

DARK CHAMBER OF THE MIND 

ANOTHER mechanical arrangement of the 
photographer's camera which serves to 
illustrate our study is found in the box-like 
compartment back of the camera-eye known 
as the " dark chamber/' 

We find a similar arrangement back of the 
physical eye by means of which we are able 
to observe, recognize and know the things of 
the outer world. 

In turn the compartment in back of the 
physical eye is simply the outwardly fashioned 
" dark chamber " representing an inner state 
of consciousness which we are able to establish 
at will in the exercise of our visualizing power, 
and which serves as a mental compartment, 
so to speak, back of the single inner eye of the 
mind, so that we can say there is a ^^ dark 
chamber '' of our consciousness just as there 
is a dark chamber of the camera. 

But in the same manner that the photogra- 
pher has found it necessary to have an out- 

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ward arrangement of this principle in the 
form of a dark compartment in his camera, 
so in visualizing, at least in the beginning, 
we shall find it necessary to have some out- 
ward compartment representing this same 
inner principle ; some quiet room in some part 
of the house which can be made as dark as 
possible, and which outwardly will be a 
counterpart of, and help to induce that 
darkened state of consciousness which is neces- 
sary in conditioning our mind for visualizing 
purposes. 

Let us familiarize ourselves for a moment 
with the purpose of the dark chamber of the 
camera in order that w-e may understand the 
principle which it outwardly embodies. 

The dark chamber shows the photographer 
the reflected light-rays which the lens of the 
camera has caught, collected and thrown into 
it as an imaged object of light. When he 
glances into it he observes this light-image by 
reflection ; he obtains his perspective, his focus, 
by means of it, also he sees whether the proper 
quantity and quality of light is being reflected. 

So with the state of consciousness of which 
the dark chamber of the camera is a counter- 
part. It shows us the reflected light-rays of 



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our objective thinking which the inner single 
eye of the mind has caught, collected and 
thrown into our objective consciousness as an 
object of thought. In this state of mind we 
are able to see ly reflection the object of our 
desires; we get our mental perspective, our 
focus, by means of this mental image ; also it 
serves to tell us whether the proper quantity 
and quality of reflective thinking is present. 

The '^ dark chamber '^ of a camera might 
with good reason be called the " illumining 
chamber '' since it conditions the imaged object 
and shows it to the photographer as an object 
of light, wonderful to behold. Similarly when 
we enter our quiet darkened room and, by 
means of this room, into a place within our 
consciousness where all is quiet and subdued, 
we find ourselves peering within ourselves into 
what we might with good reason call the " il- 
lumining chamber ' ' of the mind. 

It is in this state of objective consciousness 
in which reflection of the object of our thinking 
occurs; in which we meditate upon and con- 
template our imaged thought ; in which we are 
able to get our proper focus toward our 
thought ; our proper perspective toward it, and 
in which we are able to consider it ^^ in the 
right light.'' 



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Somewhat later in our actual work we will 
give more attention to the manner in which 
our thought-image is brought into this il- 
lumined mental chamber, how it is there acted 
upon, and how it is subsequently developed. 
Suffice it here to say that the photographer 
would get a haphazard picture if he did not 
use this illumining chamber ; if he did not peer 
carefully through it at the reflected object 
which he is planning to photograph. For the 
most part it would be ill-proportioned. Proba- 
bly the light-image would be too dim or too 
sharp, or out of focus, and so it is in the matter 
of holding our thought-object in that place in 
our consciousn^ess tvJiere it is subject to reflec- 
tion; to meditation; to where we can get the 
proper " light upon it.'' If we do not see our 
thought-object by this means, it will be re- 
produced haphazardly as is now mostly the 
case in the spontaneous and undeliberated out- 
ward fulfillment of our inner desires. 

In the illumining chamber of our conscious- 
ness, we must review our projected thought; 
we must procure our proper perspective of it 
and we must judge there and then whether or 
not it is really worth while to bring forth into 
outward realization. 



CHAPTER VIII 

WILL SERVES AS MENTAL TRIPOD 

WE know that the photographer's tripod 
serves the purpose of steadying the 
camera during the time in which the outward 
object is being focused, concentrated and trans- 
mitted, and during the time in which the light- 
image of the object is being reflected and im- 
pressed. Upon the steadiness of this support 
the distinctness of the resultant picture 
depends. 

As a mental principle, our fixed will, among 
other things, serves this same steadying pur- 
pose of the tripod, by holding our cameric 
faculties steadily directed toward the object 
in mind ; by holding the object steadily in view 
during the time of focus and concentration, 
and by holding the mental light-image of our 
object in place during the time of mental re- 
flection and impression. 

It is upon the steadiness of this supporting 
phase of the will that the distinctness and good 
results of the final outward picture is obtained. 

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However, it is generally and mistakenly 
thought that this holding function of the fixed 
will necessarily implies a tensive effort or 
strain of the mind, extending even to rigidity 
of the muscles of the body, but this should not 
be the case. The holding of our projected 
thought should not and in true visualizing does 
not require any such mental state. It calls for 
an easy meditative holding of our mental object 
in place, and should be one of the most delight- 
ful phases of our visualizing work. 



CHAPTER IX 

MIND'S RANGE-FINDER 

THERE is a function of the imaging f acnlt] 
which, in visualizing, serves very mucl 
the same purpose as the range-finding device 
attached to a camera. Upon our conscious use 
of it later on in our visualizing work, much of 
our success will depend. 

We know that the range-finding device of the 
camera serves as a measuring principle where- 
by the photographer's object is brought nearer 
to him and enlarged, or is made smaller and 
more distant. So the range-finding faculty of 
the mind will serve as a measuring principle, 
enabling us to view our mental object at will, 
or with all the breadth of vision which the un-- 
limited consciousness of mind allows, and' 
which we will learn to cultivate as our work 
goes on. 



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CHAPTER X 

ENLARGING CAMERA-DEVICE OF THE 
MIND 

THERE is an enlarging device attached to 
the more improved cameras whereby an 
object is seemingly brought nearer and en- 
larged to whatever extent the photographer 
wants his reproduced picture emphasized, or 
by means of which he can " bring out '^ this 
or that feature important to his picture as a 
whole. He is able to take the smallest picture 
and enlarge upon it to a degree where it can 
become, if he so desires, the major part of his 
reproduced picture. 

In visualizing we bring into play a similar 
inner faculty which serves the very important 
purpose of bringing nearer to us and enlarging 
whatever good and desirable thing in our lives 
we would like to see expanded and made larger 
by means of reproduction; helping us to 
" bring out '' this or that already existing 
feature of our present outward environment, 
circumstance or condition so that we are able 

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to take the smallest object which gives us hap- 
piness and magnify it to a degree where it be- 
comes the largest part of our reproduced 
mental picture. 

In fact the easiest and most successfulll 
method of visualizing is contained in just this 
principle of enlargement. We take the most^ 
desirable things which are already a part of 
our outward lives, be they ever so small, andi 
begin to see them in an ^^ enlarged way." We 
find that it is easier to elaborate upon and I 
idealize that which we already are, or possess,,, 
or have accomplished, than to formulate ob- 
jects in our consciousness which may involve) 
an entirely new set of circumstances andl| 
conditions. 



CHAPTER XI 

MIND^S CAMERA-SHUTTER 

ANOTHER mechanical device whicli is a 
part of the camera, and which lends itself 
in illustrating the mental-mechanical apparata 
used in visualizing, is the shutter. This shut- 
ter, as we know, is immediately in back of the 
dark chamber of the camera, and separates it 
from the film. 

Its particular purpose is to prevent the im- 
prisoned light-image in the dark chamber from 
coming in contact with the sensitized film in 
back of it until released at the proper moment 
by the photographer. 

Our will serves a similar purpose of protect- 
ing our unimpressed thought-image. Until we 
have properly examined our thought in the 
mind; until we have " looked into it " so to 
say; until we have gotten a proper focus and 
perspective of the thing which we want to be, 
or do or have; until we get the '' right light '' 
on it, the imaged thought is held from impress- 
ing itself upon the sensitive subjective film 

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48 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

of the mind by the will acting as the mental- 
cameric shutter. Rapid as is the operation of 
the mechanism of the camera's shutter, this 
operation of the cameric faculty of the will 
is instantaneous, except in those instances in 
our deliberate visualizing where the time ex- 
posure is of advantage. Its manner of appli- 
cation will be touched upon later in our actual 
work. 



PAET II 
CHEMISTRY OF VISUALIZING 



I 



CHAPTER I 

SENSITIZED MIND-FILM 

WE have covered now fairly well the me- 
ehanics of visualizing represented by 
that condition of mind which we know as the 
objective state of consciousness but, like pho- 
tography, visualizing is essentially a chemicali 
process which discloses itself best to us in thatl 
phase of livingness of mind which we call the 
subjective state of consciousness^ and wherein 
the wonderfully impressing, developing, fixing 
and transferring of our mental images take 
place. 

Again using photography to illustrate this 
chemical phase of visualizing, we find our very 
first comparison in what is known technically 
as the " sensitized '' or chemicalized film. If 
we were to examine this photographic film we 
would find several very important facts about 
it which will serve as the premise for cer- 
tain similar facts relating to our subjective 
thinking. 

Our first observation is that the support of 

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the film is covered with a smooth plastic coat- 
ing of gelatine in which has been mixed potas- 
simn bromide or sodiiun chloride, silver ni- 
trate, and the addition of such other chemicals 
as may serve the purpose of increasing the sen- 
sitiveness and absorbing power of this jelly- 
like substance. 

Our second observation, if directed through 
means of a high-powered microscope, would 
disclose to us the fact that the silver nitrate 
contained in this sensitized substance is made 
up of trillions of tiny electrons of silver evenly 
distributed and suspended in the interstices 
of the holding gelatine. 

Our third observation deals with these silver 
electrons or units in themselves. On exami- 
nation of them we would find that while they 
are in a whirling degree of velocity insofar as 
their own inherent movement is concerned, yet 
they are static or passive for the moment in 
their relation to external reactions. We say 
they possess tvitJiin themselves all the princi- 
ples of life in the sense in which we recognize 
and know life in outwardly visible movement, 
and potentially, in the sense of action, but as 
we said, they are for the moment in a quiescent 
or subjectively active state. 



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This is because the substance of the fihn in 
which these electrons are suspended, is in itself 
in a subjective condition, being carefully pro- 
tected from the action of all outside light, and 
this protection in turn serves in withholding 
the electrons from either acting or being acted 
upon. 

Our fourth observation is that this jelly-like 
substance of the film is unformed as yet. The 
acting principle of formation is passive. It is 
only at the moment when the photographer 
allows the outside sunlight, in the form of his 
imaged object, to impress itself upon the film, 
that the formulating and specializing elements, 
passive in the substance, and active in the light, 
are introduced and begin their work. 

Finally we can say of the plastic film-sub- 
stance that it contains certain other qualities 
such as permeability, impressibility, plasticity, 
sensitiveness, retentiveness, as well as a ^^ set- 
ting,'' absorbing, preserving and restraining 
power. 

In a very general way we can sum up by 
saying that the sensitized film of the camera 
serves the purpose of receiving upo% preserv- 
ing and subsequently developing in its highly 
sensitive substance the imprisoned light-image' 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 53 

wMch is drawn to it the moment the photogra- 
pher presses the bulb, and releases it for the 
purpose of impression. 

In conditioning our mind for the purpose of 
visualizing, we observe a mental-chemical or 
subjective element present which can well be 
compared to the sensitized substance of the 
film. The same peculiarly permeable^ impress- 
ible^ plastiCy sensitive and retentive qualities 
are apparent which exist in the photographic 
film-substance, as well as the '' setting/^ ab- 
sorbing^ preserving and restraining power, so 
that we can well believe that the compounded 
photographic substance is only the more evi- 
dent element of a like compounded mento- 
chemical substance which exists in the sub- 
jective phase of our thinking. The student is 
asked to study and remember this phase of sub- 
jective thinking because of the peculiar proper- 
ties which come into e^ddence and use in our 
later visualizing work. 

If there were such a thing as an examination 
of the composition of this aspect of our sub- 
jective thinking, we would find among other 
phenomena that the trillions of tiny electrons 
of silver on the photographer's film have their 
prototype in what we may aptly term mentoids. 



54 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

evenly distributed and suspended in the inter- 
stices of the plastic holding mind, if such a 
distribution and suspension of mind-units is . 
possible to conceive. We would find further, 
that while these mental units are in an incon- 
ceivably whirling degree of life insofar as 
their own inherent movement is concerned, yet 
they are passive and static as yet in their re- 
lation to objective reaction, because protected 
from and untouched by the objective thinking- 
light, so that we can say the subjective state of 
mind-substance of which these inconceivable 
units are a part, for a moment neither acts nor 
is acted upon. 

Like the substance of the film, it is an en- 
tirely passive substance. Its unknown units 
possess within themselves all the principles of 
livingness in the sense in which we recognize 
and know life in outwardly visible movement, . 
and potentially in the sense of action^ but until 
this subjective mode of thinking-substance is! 
brought in contact with, and acted upon by the 
imaged object of mental light, it is in a merely 
immotile and subjectively active state. 

But the instant an objective thought is 
transferred into the subjective state of our 
thinking- substance, a formulating and special- 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 55 

izing element, — passive in the subjective 
thinking and active in the thought itself, — is 
introduced which charges and changes the 
character of mind-substance, causing certain 

\ mental-chemical alterations to take place 

\ which will be touched upon later. 

J Finally, in a general way, we can say of 
the subjective state of mind, as we have said 
of the photographic film, that it serves the 
purpose of receiving upon^ preserving and 
subsequently developing in its highly sensitive 
state the illumined thought-image which is 
released by the will from the dark chamber of 
objective consciousness for the purpose of 
impression. 



CHAPTER II 

MIND'S OBJECT OF LIGHT 

PREVIOUSLY we have observed that all 
objects of a material or concrete kind, in- 
cluding the visible universe as a whole, if re- 
duced to a primary state, would be found to be 
nothing else than a substance the basis of 
which would be pure light. From this light, 
all things are evolved, becoming specialized, 
differentiated, densified and objectified into 
the shape of the flower, the tree, the rock and 
all other outward forms whatsoever. We can 
say that all these outward things are merely 
embodied collections of sun-rays in different 
modes of vibration. 

We have observed that the element of our 
thinking, if it could be reduced by chemical 
formula to a primary state, would be found to 
be nothing else than this same substance, the 
basis of which would be a light infinitely rarer 
and purer than the light with which we are 
familiar. 

We have observed that this infinitely rare 

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thinking-liglit acts upon us, in us, and through 
us whether in a specific or imiversal way, for 
the purpose of formulation, making its move- 
ments apparent in what we call the emotions, 
then further generating itself in the elemental 
forms of desire, then densif ying itself and tak- 
ing form as mental objects of light in our 
sense consciousness providing they possess the 
structural and sustaining qualities which en- 
able them to be built up in the shape of bodies 
or patterns of thought, just as we have learned 
that the external and cruder light of the sun 
takes form in the outer objects of which we are 
outwardly conscious. So we find that our rare, 
illumined thinking-substance becomes a self- 
lighted object of thought substantial in the 
degree in which our desire has vitalized it. 
We can say that all our thoughts are simply 
embodied collections of mind-rays in different 
modes or degrees of objective mental- vibration. 



CHAPTER III 

MIND'S IMAGE OF LIGHT 

THE photographer in leveling his camera 
in the direction of any outward object is 
able to get a light-image in his dark chamber 
exactly like the object toward which his cam- 
era-eye is directed. We can say of this light- 
image as we said of the object itself, that it is 
merely an embodied collection of sun-rays but 
in a lesser degree of vibration and therefore 
not as substantial and solid for the moment as 
the object from which they are being reflected, 
but which later will be very tangible in the 
sense of a finished photograph. 

By this we see that the photographer does 
not photograph his object, hut the sun-rays 
collected and assembled in his camera. 

When we level our cameric-f acuities in the 
direction of our illumined mental object, we 
are able to get an image of mental-light in the 
illumining chamber of our consciousness ex- 
actly like the mental-object toward which our 
mental-photographic eye is directed. We can 

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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 59 

say of this mental image that it is simply an 
embodied collection of the mind-rays in a dif- 
ferent mode of objective mental- vibration, and 
therefore not as substantial and solid for the 
moment as the mental object from which these 
mind-rays are being deflected, but which later 
will be very tangible in the sense of the out- 
wardly finished and visible thing which origi- 
nally was but a reflected thought in mind. 



CHAPTER IV 

MENTAL-CHEMICAL DEVELOPING 
AGENCIES 

\T 7E have said that the sensitized fihn in the 
\ f camera serves, among other purposes, 
that of developing the photographic light- 
image impressed upon it. This we say is a 
process of ' ' building up ' ' the light image from 
matter within the film-substance; it is an in- 
ternal building up out of the plastic substance 
itself, although it is a structural process of 
which we have no visible evidence when we 
look upon the impressed photographic film. 
It is not the entire developing process. So, 
in order to induce a complete outward photo- 
graphic development, the photographer finds 
it necessary to supply matter external, for the 
moment, to the film-substance, and this is what 
may be termed a " building up '^ of the image 
from matter outside of the substance of the 
photographic film. 
The photographer accomplishes this by what 

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is known technically in photography as " de- 
veloping agents '' which will start into action 
a further chemical process of development, 
and in this wise " bring out '' or make clear 
in detail the invisible light-image which is im- 
pressed on the film-substance. 

However, these " developing agents " or 
substances are not used by themselves to pro- 
duce development, but are mixed in certain 
scientific proportions so that a compound 
chemical developing substance is obtained, 
which mixed with water becomes the chemical 
bath or " developing solution ^' in which the 
photographer places his light-impressed film 
for further treatment. 

We can say of the process that goes on in the 
developing solution, that it is simply a further 
f ormulative action of the developing principle 
inherent in the light-image, and which begins 
at the moment when the image is impressed 
upon the film, or we can say that it represents 
a further precipitation, or '' building up " of 
deposit on the pure metallic silver electrons 
suspended in the sensitive film-substance, and 
serving as additional supply or density of 
silver metallic deposit to the " body '' of the 
light image. 



62 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

We can say that the solution is also a lib- 
erating and freeing agent, since certain of the 
chemical substances in it ^^ liberate '' the im- 
pressed image ; removing the bromide from the 
metallic silver deposit of the image, and 
" bringing it out '' so to speak, in clear relief 
on the film/ 

Like the sensitized film in the camera, so we 
have said of the sensitized and impressible 
state of our subjective thinking that it serves, 
among other purposes, the purpose of develop- 
ing the illumined thought-image impressed up- 
on this thinking, and we say of it that it is a 
mind-process whereby our mental-image is 
^^ hitilt'Up ^^ from a thinking within. We 
underline and emphasize this point in order 
that the student may remember that there are 
two processes of development of our thought- 
image at work, one an inner mental process and 
one an outer mental process, as we shall see 
in a moment. These structural processes are 
really one and the same except that the begin- 
ning of the outward development of our im- 

^ There are, of course, various other chemical actions of a 
complex kind in connection with this developing process into 
which we cannot enter here without complicating our studies.^ 
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pressed thought is an internal building up out 
of the plastic substance of mind itself of which 
we have no visible sense evidence for the 
moment. So in order to induce a complete 
outward development into what we call matter, 
it is necessary to have matter of a kind ex- 
ternal for the moment to the inner subjective 
thinking, and this is what we may term the 
" building up '' of the imaged thought from 
material outside of our subjective thinking. 

This is accomplished by mental " developing 
agents '' which start into action a further 
mental-chemical process of development, and 
thus " bring out '^ or make visible in detail 
the invisible thought-image impressed in our 
thinking. These " developing agents ^' of 
mind in their compounded nature, constitute 
the mental-chemical bath, or developing solu- 
tion of our sub-sense consciousness, in which 
our thought-image is placed. We can say with 
scientific correctness that in principle they are 
nothing different than the chemical developing 
agents which are used by the photographer. 

Let us see if we can make this statement 
more clear by a simple study of one of the de- 
veloping agents in the photographic solution 
such as the silver chloride or salts. In chem- 



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istry this substance can be reduced to finer 
formulations which the chemist terms sub- 
salts. Again these can be reduced to free lib- 
erated vapors and gases. Beyond these he 
comes to a non-formulative point where he 
stops, and yet, by continuing the process of de- 
duction we can follow the reduction from free 
gases to a light-substance of yet finer modes of 
vibration until in mental science we observe 
and recognize its mentative presence in what 
we here term our sub-sense consciousness. 

We can say of the developing process which 
goes on when the imaged thought is transferred 
to and sunk in sub-sense consciousness, that 
it is simply a further f ormulative action of the 
developing principle inherent in the imaged 
thought, and which begins at the moment when 
the thought-image is impressed upon the film 
of subjective thinking; or we can say that iti 
acts as a further precipitation in conscious- 
ness ; a further " building up ''of the thought,, 
and serves as additional supply or density on 
body to the thought in a manner which we shall 
more fully cover in our later lessons. 

We can say also that our sub-sense conscious- 
ness is a liberating and releasing agent, which 
*^ brings out ''our imaged thought, so to say, 



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in clear relief to a point where we can cognize 
it by means of our senses. 

Eetnrning to tlie photo-developing solution 
of the photographer, we observe that it is sub- 
ject to and capable of various modifications 
which are determined by the quantity or pro- 
portions of the developing chemicals used, or 
by the presence of additional chemical agents. 
These modifications are also induced by the 
quality of the developing agents, or by what 
chemists term the purity or impurity of the 
ingredients. On these modifications depends 
the clearness or unclearness of the final 
picture ; its detail or lack of detail, harshness 
or softness, strength or lack of strength, tone 
or lack of tone, density or f aintness, vigor or 
lack of vigor, perfection or imperfection, as 
well as slowness or rapidity of development. 

This is also true of the substance of our sub- 
sense consciousness. It is subject to and ca- 
pable of infinite modifications which are deter- 
mined by the purity or impurity and the cor- 
rect or incorrect proportions superimposed 
by the kind of subjective thinking which we 
are accustomed to do. On the presence or 
absence of these modifications in our thinking 
depends the clearness or unclearness of the 



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finished outer picture of the mind; its detail 
or lack of detail, harshness or softness, 
strength or lack of strength, tone or lack of 
tone, density or faintness, vigor or lack of 
vigor, perfection or lack of perfection, as well 
as slowness or rapidity of development. 

We cannot here go into details regarding 
the various additional chemical developing 
processes which the photographer finds neces- 
sary to completely develop his photograph, and 
to give it permanence. It is necessary for him 
to transfer his film from the developing solu- 
tion to a clear water bath, then to a ^^ fixing '' 
bath, then to a clear water bath again. After 
this the film is thoroly dried and varnished. 
The light-image on it is then transferred to a 
sensitized paper similar in chemical composi- 
tion to that of the film, and which is called' 
printing; then the print is immersed in a 
developing solution and a fixing bath similar 
to those in which the impressed film was pre- 
viously placed. Here, too, various chemical I 
modifications are introduced in densifying audi 
modifying the impression. 

Study of photographic development is dis- 
closing constantly improvements which are 
making this phase of photography truly an art 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 67 

and a science of the highest kind. This fact is 
equally true of our visualizing studies- As 
stated in the beginning, these lessons are in- 
tended more or less to serve as outposts in 
this little known region of mental science, 
where only the wise men of the ages have 
penetrated. But there is no doubt that the 
study of mental-photography and particularly 
of the phase of it treated in this lesson, will 
make it an art and a science not only of the 
highest but also of the most useful kind in our 
human affairs. 

Some day we will know how to get perma- 
nency, rapidity of action, lustre, tone, fixation, 
gradation, hardening, softening, retouching 
and intensification in our mental-photographic 
work as easily as the photographer is able to 
induce these various chemical modifications in 
his work. We have already seen that the pho- 
to-developing solution and fixing bath in which 
the photographer immerses his light-image, 
and out of which his photograph finally 
emerges as a real and tangible thing visible 
to the physical eye, is no different than the in- 
finitely rarer compounded substance of sub- 
jective consciousness in which the seemingly 
impalpable thought-image is sunk, and out of 



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which it materializes as a real and tangible 
thing visible on the outward plane of life. All 
that we must remember is that the various 
chemical processes, methods and improve- 
ments which the photographer uses in his 
developing work, and which are making pho- 
tography an ever more and more exact science, 
already exist as chemical principles in the lab- 
oratory of mind^ and that it is necessary only 
for US to study and apply these principles as 
they reveal themselves outwardly in the for- 
mulas which the photographer follows in order 
to get his same perfect developing results. 



CHAPTER V 

MENTAL-CHEMICAL PROCESS EXPLAINED 

TT 7E now have reviewed the chemical prin- 
W ciples involved in visualizing, and now, 
in a general way, we will observe how these 
principles work out in connection with our 
visualizing studies. 

Previously we have spoken of the light- 
image in the dark chamber of the camera, and 
of the thought-image in the illumining chamber 
of our consciousness. The manner in which 
both of these images are established is perti- 
nent here. 

When the photographer levels his camera 
in the direction of any outward object, the 
light-rays of the sun in falling back from the 
object are caught and focused by the photo- 
graphic camera-eye, then transmitted to the 
illumining chamber, and there assembled, as 
we have observed, forming an image of light 
or projected object exactly like the object 
toward which the camera is directed. 

This is precisely what takes place in con- 



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nection with the illumined mental-object in the 
mind when our faculties become directed 
toward it. If it has proved a pleasing or strong 
mental excitant, if one can " sense "it strongly 
enough, so to speak, it becomes held and estab- 
lished in consciousness, and we say that we are 
" thinking about it." 

The truth of the matter is that we are not 
only ' ' thinking about ' ^ it but upon it ! It 
means that we are directing against our 
thought, the vibrations or pulsations of a mind- 
light much finer than our thought-object has 
become, just as the unformed light of the sun 
is a much finer light than the formed material 
objects which were once a part of the sunlight. 

The mental-light pours itself upon and 
about our thought and bathes it just as the 
cruder light of the sun continually pours itself 
against all outward objects, and, in the same 
manner in which the light-rays of the sun are 
deflected from an object and thrown back into 
space, so our objective thinking, in pouring 
itself against the formulated mental-object in 
the mind, is deflected and thrown back again 
in consciousness. 

However, here is where the wonder of the 
mental-photographic process appears in strik- 



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ing contrast to the present photographic 
process employed by the photographer. If 
our object of thought is a strong enough ex- 
citant within us, a mind-heat is generated, 
the process of which we will explain later. 
The mind-heat gently and imperceptibly sets 
into movement the finely arranged and ad- 
justed group of mechanical faculties which be- 
long to what we call the " intellect/' and which 
we have described as constituting the various 
parts of the camera of the mind ; they become 
automatically and gently leveled in the di- 
rection toward which our attention has been 
excited, so that we are now focusing our 
mental-camera, so to say, in the direction of 
the mental object established in our sense- 
consciousness. 

At the same time, in the manner in which 
the light-rays of the sun pour themselves upon 
the object and fall back, so our " thinking 
upon " and " about '' our mental object is 
nothing different than the light-rays of our 
thinking which pour themselves upon our 
mental object, in the form of a continuous 
spray of mental-light, undifferentiated and un- 
specialized as yet in the sense of form. But 
when our mental-photographic eye becomes 



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leveled against our object ; when it catches and 
focuses this flood of deflected mental-light and 
transmits it into the illumining chamber of our 
consciousness, it becomes an image of mental 
light exactly like the mental object toward 
which our illumined thinking has been directed. 
The light of our thinking takes shape ; it be- 
comes a differentiated and specialized form of 
mental-light, and by projection it becomes in 
itself the mental object, so that thereafter we 
no more deal with the object existing in our 
outer or sense-consciousness, but with the light 
which has formed itself as an image of the 
object, and which has established itself in the 
illumining chamber of our inner consciousness. 



CHAPTER VI 

HOW AN IMAGED THOUGHT IS 
IMPRESSED 

HAVING established his light-image in the 
illuming or '' dark chamber ^^ of his 
camera, the photographer presses the bulb, 
the cameric slide or shutter opens and closes 
according to the time of exposure required, 
and the wonder of the photographic impres- 
sion is wrought. 

The imaged light has streamed forward, and 
its actinic or chemical rays have penetrated 
and embedded themselves upon the highly sen- 
sitized and permeable substance of the film, 
and thus have become " impressed " in the 
exact form of the object which they imaged. 

In a sense it may be said that a form of sun- 
light is captured by the photographer, and 
is impressed into service for his particular 
purpose of outward reproduction. It becomes 
temporarily an imprisoned light absorbed into 
the sensitive gelatine-substance of the film. In 
fact, the particularly concentrated chemical 

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quality of sunlight out of which the light-image 
forms itself, becomes by absorption and pene- 
tration a part of the compounded substance 
itself, taking on its plastic body, and, by chem- 
ical affinity, affecting the marriage or union 
which results in the " quickening '' of the 
light-image. 

Simultaneously a transformation of the sen- 
sitive film-substance itself has taken place 
within the area in which the light-image has 
struck it. Its composition has become changed. 
The student will recall that previously it was 
an entirely passive substance^ and that while 
the silver electrons distributed and suspended 
in it, possessed potentially all the evidence of 
life, yet this life was in a quiescent state. 
However, now by the vibrating energy of the 
light which passes into the substance with the 
entrance of the light-image, this substance has 
become converted from a passive to a mag- 
netically active light-substance. 

Also, we recall that the film-substance here- 
tofore was an unformulated substance, but now 
the light-image has brought with it its own 
peculiar formulating and specializing char- 
acteristics so that at the moment of union the 
plastic light-substance develops a formulat- 



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ing and specializing power by means of which 
the first stages in the development of the light- 
image occurs within itself. 

If this impressive moment could be observed 
microscopically, we would find the electrons in 
the streaming rays of light embracing the tril- 
lions of silver electrons suspended in the film- 
substance, and in this union, effecting the 
mysterious and subtile transfiguration which 
chemists are unable as yet fully to explain. 
All that they know is that the positive chemical 
rays of the outer light have entered into and 
impregnated the static electrons of silver, 
merging with them by a process of smelting, 
changing them to a more metallic quality, and 
charging them with their own energy and 
powers, so that these electrons develop a high 
degree of whirling activity or " aliveness.'' 
Heretofore passive, then, they have become 
literally " enlightened '' or ^^ lightened up " 
by contact with the imaged light, so that in 
union with it, these tiny electrons of silver, as a 
whole, become basicly the magnetic and me- 
tallic matter which forms the light-image in 
the substance of the film, and which also later 
will form the " body " of the developed film. 

Speaking of the light-image we can say that 



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what has transpired at this moment of photo- 
graphic impression is that a certain specialized 
form of outer objective light has passed into 
and become identified with a passive and 
highly impressionable film-substance, for the 
purpose of heeommg a more substantially 
specialized form of light, and, for the time 
being it has become so in an inner subjective 
sense; we can say also that it is a differentiated 
form of light which has gone into and become 
identified with the inner undifferentiated sub- 
stance on the film, becoming subjectively con- 
ditioned for the moment i^i order to reassert 
itself in a further and more substantial dif- 
ferentiation of light later on. It is, we may 
say, a going imvardly of this formulated, 
specialized, and differentiated light into the 
film, and becoming the active and magnetic 
element of its compounded metallic substance, 
so that it may again appear as light later on 
but in the denser and more permanent form 
of the finished photograph. ^| 

We dwell upon this transition here because 
throughout the entire visualizing process, as i 
throughout the process of photography, we 
observe this phenomenon of specialization, dif- 
ferentiation and particularization in order to i 
produce an ultimate result. 



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> ,-n ii III. ■ 

By this entrance into the film-substance the 
light-image is, we may say, on its way toward 
the first stage of its outward tangible materiali- 
zation or reproduction as a photograph ; it be- 
comes a more tangible and substantial imaged 
object than when it was merely an image of 
pure light, because it has clothed itself now in 
a metallic body formed out of the enfilming 
and plastic film-substance in which it em- 
bedded itself. 

It becomes now not only a further special- 
ized and differentiated form of the sunlight 
as the photographer saw it in the illumining 
chamber of his camera a moment before, but 
it also becomes a protected form of light, pul- 
sating at a different degree of vibration and 
energy now from that of the sunlight of which 
it was at one time a part, and for this reason 
the photographer carefully protects and seals 
the light-image on the film from contact with 
the external light-vibrations of the outer light 
until the darkened developing room is reached. 

So with the illumined thought-image which 
is held in the dark chamber of the conscious- 
ness until released by the will or camera- 
shutter of the mind. It pours its formulated 
light-self upon the highly impressionable and 



78 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

conditioned substance of subjective thinking; 
in this permeable thinking-substance it be- 
comes embedded and " impressed/' and a 
greater wonder than that of the photographic , 
impression has been wrought! 

In a mentally scientific way we may say witl 
perfect correctness that the imaged thought i^ 
a form of chemical mental-light which has beei 
captured by the mental camera-eye, and im-" 
pressed into service out of the mind, whether 
our own or that of another, for the particular 
purpose of outward reproduction as a thing in 
our lives. 

The imaged thought for the moment becomes 
an imprisoned thought. In fact, by penetra- 
tion, absorption and embedment in the very 
substance of subjective thinking, the thought 
becomes a part of the compounded mind-sub- 
stance itself, taking on its plastic, passive 
qualities, and, by mento-chemical affinity, 
causing a marriage or union of two phases of 
thinking which results in a ^' quickening '' of 
the light-image in the mind. 

At the same moment an alteration of the 
subjective mind-substance itself takes place. 
Within the area of mind affected by the in- 
clasped thought-image, the thinking becomes 



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changed from a purely passive to a magneti- 
cally active mode. The mental-chemical ele- 
ments suspended in this state of thinking we 
can say have become " magnetized.'' 

If we were able to observe these mental- 
chemical elements at the moment of impres- 
sion, we would see the trillions of tiny men- 
toids in an inconceivable whirl or state of 
activity. Heretofore passive, these hardly im- 
aginable units of the subjective phase of mind 
have become electrified and " enlightened '^ 
by contact with, and absorption of, the imaged 
mental-light, so that now in affinity with this 
light of the mind, they become the quickened 
and basicly active magnetic substance of our 
imaged-thought. 

The thought-image takes on a state of ex- 
treme " aliveness." We can say that what 
has occurred at this moment of thought-im- 
pression is this : A certain specialized form of 
mental-light, which we call an imaged thought 
reflecting our outer or objective mode of think- 
ing, has passed into and become a part of the 
inner highly impressionable mode of thinking- 
substance which we term the subjective mode 
of mind, in order to become a more substan- 
tially specialized form of thought^ and for the 



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time being, it has become so in an inner subjec- 
tive manner ; we can say that a differentiated 
form of thought has gone into and become a 
part of the inner undifferentiated phase of our 
thinking-substance in order to come forth 
again in a further, ever different outward and 
more substantial form of the thought or thing ; 
a going inward into mind-substance in order to 
reappear in the outward as subjective mind- 
substance itself, but in the denser, compounded 
form of matter which subjective mind-sub- 
stance is caused to become in its outward 
formulation and expansion when acted upon 
by the objectively imaged thought. 

Also we can say that by this mental process 
of impression our imaged thought is on its way 
toward the first stage of its outward tangible 
materialization or reproduction as a thing, a 
circumstance, or a condition of outward life. 
It becomes a more tangible, palpitating, vital- 
ized and magnetic object in the consciousness, 
than when it was simply a reflected object of I 
mental light, because the thought has now tak- 
en for its living body the enfilming and plastic 
substance of the subjective state of thinking 
in which it has embedded itself. 

It becomes now, not only a specialized and I 



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differentiated form of mind-light, but it also 
becomes a protected form of mental lights 
highly sensitive, highly susceptible, highly 
magnetized, and we may say, further differ- 
entiated from the objective mind-light which 
was seen in the illumining chamber of the 
mind; pulsating at a different degree of 
mental vibration from that of the general 
outward mode of objective thinking. It must 
be kept from contact with, or exposure to 
the kind of mental-light which is represented 
in the external vibrations of the outward 
method of thinking, whether emanating from 
our own or other minds. The imaged thought 
which was at one time a part of objective 
thinking now becomes a part of what we 
know as subjective thinking, and so must not 
come in contact with the former at this stage 
of the visualizing process. For this reason the 
impressed thought-image is carefully pro- 
tected and sealed with the will as we shall 
subsequently see. 

It is now a mentally-photographed thought, 
a living object of the mind, forming itself out 
of the filmy and plastic texture of subjective 
mind-substance. Thereafter it will take tangi- 
ble shape in sub-sense-consciousness, awaiting 



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only time and the proper mental conditions 
for its fixation, hardening, transference and 
outward development into the visible sense- 
world, where we can feel and see and other- 
wise become cognizant of it. 

We can say of the thought-image what the 
photographer is able to say of his light-image, 
that it is on its way toward the first stage of 
its outward tangible materialization or repro- 
duction as a mental photograph, and when we 
understand this consciously and fully ^ then all 
doubt about the reality of the mental-photo- 
graphic process will cease. 

We have only to consider the fact that the 
photographer's film has impressed upon it 
nothing more than a collection of light-rays, 
nothing more than a light-image offset by a 
shadow, and which is altogether invisible to 
the sense-sight, yet when he subsequently 
applies the appropriate developing process to 
it, he finds that that which for the moment is 
invisible on the sensitive surface of the photo- 
graphic film gradually formulates itself into 
that which is visible to the eye. 

It is a marvelous fact yet perfectly natural! 
in both instances, and that which is true of the 
photographic film is just as true of the sub- 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 83 

jective impressionable element of the mind of 
wliicli the film is the outward chemicalized cor- 
respondent. Our heart's desire forms itself 
into that which is but a thought at first; the 
thought becomes projected and impressed up- 
on our subjective thinking and by the process 
of development next to be explained, becomes 
the thing which is visible to our eyes. 



CHAPTER VII 

HOW AN IMPRESSED THOUGHT PASSES 
INTO MENTAL SOLUTION 

THE photographer carries his photographic 
film, with its impressed form of sunlight, 
to the developing room, and here places it in 
the " developing solution.'' This for the pur- 
pose of further development. It is necessary 
for the light-image to continue along the lines 
of its peculiar formative power, since we must 
remember that, after impression, the image be- 
comes not only a vitalized and magnetic image, 
but continues to be a formulative one, even 
though its forming power has become changed 
now from a positive to a subjective one. How- 
ever, the light-image of necessity must have 
something to act or work upon in order for its 
formulative power to exert itself, and this is 
why the photographer places it in the chemical 
developing solution. When he does this, we 
say that certain chemical actions and reactions 
or sensations take place in both the electrons 
which compose the metallic substance of the 

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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 85 

ligM-image now, and the floating electrons in 
the solution, resulting in changes in both. 

The first change is that caused in the sub- 
\ stance of the solution by the light-image. We 
said previously that this substance in solution, 
like the substance on the gelatine film, origi- 
nally is an entirely unfonnulated substance. 
However, now, as a result of the placing of the 
light-image in it, the formulating and special- 
izing element of the light is introduced, and 
again manifests itself as it did when the light 
became impressed previously upon the film- 
substance so that we can say the solution is in 
process of becoming a formulated substance 
due to the presence of the imaged light in it. 

This formulation does not occur, as in the 
instance of the film-substance, by the positive 
action of the rays of light rushing to, and pene- 
trating the silver electrons in the solution. We 
must remember that this light is subjective 
now, having partaken of the nature of the film- 
substance in which it is embedded, so that now 
its formulating power acts as a purely mag- 
netic or draiving force in connection with the 
formulation going on in the solution. 

We remember the solution to have been an 
entirely passive substance; that its activity was 



86 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

latent, and that while its free floating electrons 
of silver possessed potentially within them- 
selves the elements of livingness, yet, like the 
electrons in the substance of the film, they were 
in a subjective or static state of being. How- 
ever, novv^, by a chemical reaction or sensation 
very complex and difficult to trace, probably 
by a transmission of the vibratory energy of 
the light, these electrons become '' polarized " 
or positive in their nature, when the light- 
image is introduced, and so the substance of 
the solution becomes an active substance ob- 
jective in its direction. 

But this now active or positive substance 
which the solution represents, must also of 
necessity have something to react or work 
upon, even as the light-image, and what is 
more, it must have something which will draw 
it forth, or attract it; something to which it 
can respond or to which it can give itself since 
that is now the nature of this substance. 
Hence the reaction to the light-image which 
the photographer introduces. 

If during this further developing process, 
the photographer again peered through a high- 
powered microscope, he would see this chemical 
action and reaction in the form of the trillions 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 87 

of tiny " magnetized," metallic electrons of 
the light-image, whirling at an inconceivable 
degree of velocity in the substance of the 
film, and pulling toward them the trillions of 
" polarized " or positively active electrons of 
silver in the developing solution. 

At the same time he would see the " polar- 
ized " or positively active electrons pulsating 
and stirring into movement; yielding them- 
selves and rushing forward with equal velocity 
in response to the pull of the film-electrons, 
as if eagerly taking their appointed places in 
the substance of the light-image, or areas of 
light-impression into which they are recipro- 
cally and rhythmically drawn. 

We will remember here that the depth or 
density of the light-image formed originally 
in the substance of the film at the moment of 
impression depended upon the penetration of 
the image into the film-substance, and this 
penetration in turn depended upon the quality 
and quantity, or rather intensity of the light 
which was projected. Now, however, the ad- 
ditional depth or density of metallic deposit on 
the light-image will depend upon the quality 
and quantity of the substance of the solution, 
plus the quantity and quality, or intensity of 



88 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

the light which was projected. 

In other words, if the impression of the light 
upon the film has been sufficiently intense, then 
there will be both depth and density in the 
form of the silver electrons on the film which 
has been penetrated, and if the solution is suf- 
ficiently strong, then this depth and density of 
formulation will be augmented by the further 
metallic deposit of the positive silver electrons 
in the solution. 

We can say that this phase of the photo- 
graphic developing process is a further densifi- 
cation of the light-image; a more concrete 
form of specialization ; it is in fact a further 
going-in process of the differentiated light- 
image so that it may come forth again into the 
outward in yet more permanent and substantial 
form than before. 

The final chemical change which we note at 
this time in connection with the photographic 
developing process is the " liberation '^ so- 
called of the projected light-image. As we 
have said, it has been captured, impressed, 
imprisoned and hidden in the compound film- 
substance. But now, due to the liberating 
agent present in the solution, all the tempo- 
rarily withholding or restraining elements in 



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the substance, as well as those unrelated and 
unessential to the specific image, become grad- 
ually removed from within and around it, " re- 
leasing ^' the impounded image and " bringing 
it out '^ from the surrounding film-substance. 

Following this come the various chemical 
modifications and additional treatments of the 
light-image which the photographer introduces 
in the course of the developing process for the 
purpose of " hardening '^ and bringing forth 
into the visible a perfect and permanent print 
or reproduction of his object. 

We are able to see, moment by moment, this 
chemical transformation take place, in the 
nature of a body of light, entirely invisible at 
first, gradually shaping itself in denser and 
denser formation of metallic substance, until, 
wonder of wonders, we behold becoming 
evident on the chemicalized paper, the finished 
photograph of a landscape, a face, a home, or 
whatever else was intended to be outwardly 
reproduced. 

We now study our photographed mental 
object or tJioiight-impression under a similar 
process of developing and at the time when 
it passes into the solution of our sub-sense 
consciousness. 



90 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

It is necessary for our impressed thought- 
image to undergo a further process of develop- 
ment and to continue along the lines of its own 
peculiar formative power, inherent in itself, 
since, after the impression, the mental-image 
becomes not only a vitalized and magnetic 
thought, but continues to be a formulative one^ 
even though its forming power has become 
changed now from an objective to a subjective 
one. 

However, our impressed thought must have 
something to act or work upon in order for its 
formative power to exert itself, and this is why 
it becomes transferred and sunk in the mental- 
chemical developing solution of sub-sense con- 
sciousness. When this takes place we can say 
that certain mental actions and reactions or 
sensations take place both in the nature of our 
impressed thought and in the sub-conscious 
thinking in which it is placed. 

The first mental change which we will note 
here is that caused by the action of the thought 
upon the substance of our subconscious think- 
ing. We said previously that this thinking- 
substance, like the substance of the outer or 
objective phase of thinking, originally is an 
entirely unformulated mind-sud stance. How- 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 91 

ever, now, as a result of the entrance of the 
imaged or projected thought into it, the for- 
mulating and specializing characteristic of the 
\ thought itself is introduced, and again asserts 
itself as it did when projected and impressed 
previously upon our subjective-thinking, so 
that we can readily say that the sub-sense con- 
sciousness is now in a process of formulation 
due to the provocation of the imaged thought 
present in it. 

This subconscious mind-formation does not 
occur, as in the first instance, by the positive 
action of the mental light of our objective 
thought penetrating and permeating the sub- 
conscious mind, since our imaged thought is 
subjective now, having partaken of the nature 
of the subjective mode of thinking in which it 
is embedded, so that now the formulating char- 
acter of its light acts as a purely magnetic or 
draiving power in relation to its own develop- 
ment in subconsciousness. 

But the reverse of this becomes true of sub- 
consciousness itself. We recall the fact that 
this state of our thinking is primarily a passive 
or static state of mind-substance ; that its activ- 
ity while eternally present is latent, and that 
while the free floating monads of subconscious- 



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ness possess within their natures all the ele- 
ments of livingness, yet, like these same 
monads in subjective thinking, they are prima- 
rily in a subjective or static state of being. 
However, by a mento-chemical sensation or 
reaction which the mental scientist can but 
vaguely trace in his deductions, but which he 
can assume with reason is caused by a trans- 
mission of the energy of the objective mental- 
light introduced with the submerged thought, 
these mental monads become " polarized " or 
positive in their nature, and so w^e can say that 
the plastic subconsciousness a:ffected by oun 
thought becomes an active formulating anS 
specializing mind-substance, objective in its 
direction. It becomes quickened into an area 
of extreme activity, proportionate to the 
strength and vitality existing in and intro- 
duced by the impressed thought. 

But this now active or positive area of sub- 
consciousness must of necessity have some sort 
of thinking-substance on which to react or 
work, and what is more, it must have some 
kind of thought which will draw it forth or 
attract it ; some thought to which it can respond 
or give itself^ since its givingness has now be- 
come active, and this implies action. Hence 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 93 

its response to the projected thought which 
ihas been introduced into it. 
1 If during this continuity of development of 
our impressed thought, we were able to see the 
mental-chemical actions and reactions going 
i on, we would observe the uncountable trillions 
of " magnetized '' mentoids composing the 
imaged thought, whirling with inconceivable 
subjective velocity, and drawing toward them 
the uncountable trillions of " polarized '' or 
positive mentoids in subconsciousness. 

At the same time we would see the " polar- 
ized '^ mentoids pulsating into movement; 
yielding themselves, and rushing forward with 
more ethereal rapidity and ease than the elec- 
trons in the photo-solution ; giving themselves 
in response to the pull of the subjective men- 
toids, and eagerly taking their appointed 
places in the area of the thought-impressed 
substance into which they are reciprocally and 
rhythmically drawn. 

What is more, this activity is not confined to 
the limitations of a certain area allowed by a 
photographic film, or a certain quantity of 
chemical solution or substance, as is the photo- 
graphic process of a photographer, nor is it 
confined even within the limited scope of our 



94 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

own individualized objectively and sub- 
jectively conditioned mind. Our illumined 
thought passes on and beyond the limited scope 
of our own circumscribed subjective thinking, 
and becomes an enfilmed form of mental light 
sunk in the great universal everywhere of sub- 
jective consciousness, formulating its struc- 
ture of infinitely delicate thought-texture out 
of the body-forming substance which underlies 
and invisibly pervades all conditions, all cir- 
cumstances and all affairs of the outward 
world, including ourselves, so that friends, 
relatives, strangers, words, occasions, circum- 
stances, conditions and all else having mental 
kinship, and coming within the magnetic area 
of our impressed thought, will be attracted to 
us in a seemingly miraculous, yet perfectly 
natural way, in order to help us fulfill, and in 
some instances to become a part of, our out- 
wardly forming picture. 

We will find thoughts similarly conditioned, 
infusing and blending with our own, just as 
the electrons in the photographic pan move 
toward, infuse and blend themselves with the 
magnetic electrons on the photographic film — 
governed in both instances by the unerring law 
of attraction which brings together all that 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 95 

wMcIl belongs together — so that in the case 
of our developing picture, all that which be- 
\longs to it will eagerly, or should eagerly, find 
its appointed place as a part of it. 

In a word, our immersed thought arouses 
and draws unto it a whole system of subcon- 
scious activities, and it is in this way and no 
other, that the chemiaal structure of our lives, 
of our mental images, shape themselves out of 
the seemingly invisible everywhere and finally 
reveal themselves to us in the visible here in 
the shape of the business, the home, or the 
simplest object which in thought we have suf- 
ficiently impressed upon the mind and chemi- 
calized into outward form. 

Let us note here that the depth or density 
of our thought-impression depends upon the 
degree to which it penetrated our subjective 
thinking, and this penetration in turn depends 
upon the quality and quantity or rather the 
intensity of the thought which was projected. 
We will touch upon this point in more detail 
in our subsequent lessons. 

The point to be brought out here is that the 
additional depth or density of deposit on the 
thought, now depends upon the quality and 
quantity of the substance of our subconscious- 



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ness, plus the intensity of the impressed 
thought. 

In other words, if the impression of the pro- 
jected thought upon our subjective thinking 
has been sufficiently intense, then there will be 
both depth and density in the form of the men- 
toids which have been penetrated, and if the 
subconscious mind-solution is sufficiently 
strong, then this depth and density of formula- 
tion will be augmented by the further deposit 
of the positive mentoids of subconscious mind. 

We can say here that this phase of the 
mental-developing process is a further den- 
sification of our developing thought; a more 
concrete form of mental-specialization; it is 
in fact a further going-in process of the pro- 
jected thought for the purpose of further 
mind-differentiation, so that it may come 
forth again into the outward in yet more 
permanent and substantial form than before. 

The final mental-chemical change which we 
here observe in connection with the mental 
developing process is the " liberation,'^ chem- 
ically speaking, of the projected light-image. 
As previously observed, our projected thought 
has been " captured '' out of the infinite every- 
where of objective thinking or more directly 



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; out of the objective thinking passing through 
lus or another; it has been impressed, im- 
Iprisoned and hidden in the enfilming substance 
of subjective thinking. But now, due to the 
liberating presence or intelligence made active 
in subconsciousness, all the temporarily with- 
hiolding or restraining elements of mind, as 
well as those unrelated and unessential to the 
specific thought, become gradually removed 
from within and around it, '' releasing '^ the 
impounded thought, and " bringing it out " 
from the surrounding compounded thinking. 

Following this come the various mento- 
chemical modifications and additional treat- 
ments of the thought which are consciously or 
unconsciously introduced in the course of its 
developing process, and which serve the pur- 
pose of " hardening,'' and bringing forth into 
the outwardly visible, a perfect and permanent 
reproduction of the thought or object origi- 
nally held in the mind. 

We shall see in later lessons how it is made 
possible for the transformation of a thought, 
in the form of a mental-body of light, entirely 
invisible in the beginning, gradually to shape 
itself in denser and denser formation of mind- 
substance to the point of what we call matter, 



98 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

until, greater wonder than the wonder of the 
photographic solution, we behold becoming 
visible in our lives, the outward evidence of our I 
inner thought, of our mental picture, embodiedJ 
in the substantial form of money, home, busi- j 
ness, position, lover, husband, wife, friends, 
circumstances, conditions, or whatever else 
was intended by our desire to be outwardly 
reproduced. 



CHAPTER VIII 

DEVELOPING ROOM OF THE MIND 

ITTTE have stated that the photographer 
VV takes his impression or " negative " 
for development to a carefully darkened room 
called the " developing room.'' It is simple 
in arrangement, containing usually a chair, 
a pan holding the photographic solution, and 
a small, dim, red light, as an aid in observing 
the development of the photographic im- 
pression. 

The room is darkened for the same reason 
that causes the photographer carefully to pro- 
tect and seal his impression until the dark 
room is reached. The impression, as we know, 
is now a specialized and preserved form of 
light-substance, highly magnetized, sensitive 
and impressionable. It must be kept from 
contact with, or exposure to, external light- 
vibrations. 

For this reason the photographer carefully 
boards his windows and doors, excluding 
every possible ray of outside light which may 
filter in and spoil the photographic impression. 

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100 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

In visualizing, the quiet, darkened room in 
which we carry on our work now becomes our 
developing room. Here we enter inwardly 
into a condition of consciousness which is simi- 
lar in principle to the developing room. 

The room in which our thought-developing 
is accomplished must be darkened for the same 
reason which causes us unconsciously to care- 
fully protect and seal with our will, the im- 
pression of our projected thought until de- 
velopment has taken place. It is now, as we 
know, a specialized and preserved form of 
thinking-substance, highly sensitive and im- 
pressionable, and highly magnetized. Like 
the photographic film, it must be kept from 
contact with, or exposure to, the external vi- 
brations of objective thinking of our own or 
other minds. 

The darker the room can be made the better 
it will serve its purpose of providing out- 
wardly the condition which we mentally need. 
It must more than ever be a ^^ silence room '^ 
as well as a darkened room, since at this time 
we are providing an outer environment which 
corresponds with and provides the tone and 
atmosphere for our subjective mental con- 
dition, and from which must be excluded not j 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 101 

only light-reactions which peculiarly affect 

\ \ our mental state, but those of sound as well. 

1 In fact, no sense-distraction or disturbing ex- 

I ternal vibration of any kind must be permitted 

i to enter. 

If a ^^ silence room '' or retreat of this kind 

cannot be provided, then as in the instance of 

the dark chamber, we must arrange to make 

\ our bedroom the place for treating our 

\ thought. In the hushes of the night, in the 

t very early hours immediately after midnight, 

our best mental developing work can be done, 

since the outer objective vibrations are at their 

lowest. 

An ideal " silence room '' in itself can be 

I made a first object upon which to visualize if 

I we are not provided with such, so that through 

visualizing, we may so shape the circumstances 

and conditions of our homes that a " silence 

room '^ for all visualizing purposes may be 

secured. 



CHAPTER IX 

SUBSCONSCIOUS DEVELOPING PROCESS 
EXPLAINED 

Wj recall that the first stage of the develop- 
ment of a photograph occurs when the 
outer light-image is let into and strikes the 
film substance. Immediately there occurs a 
reduction and conversion of the silver electrons 
suspended in the substance so that they be- 
come an unseen metallic basis or body incor- 
porating the light which has penetrated and 
become part of them. We said that this was 
development from within the film substance. 
We compared this with our objective pro- 
jected thought, or rather with the formed light 
of our objective understanding, saying that 
the first stage of its development begins when 
our imaged-thought impresses itself upon our 
subjective thinking-substance, and that we 
call this the inner development of our thought. 
The outward and further process of photo- 
graphic development occurs as we have seen, 
when the photographer places his photo- 

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graphic impression in the chemical solution. 
The objective and positive light-image which 
\ I became subjective and magnetic when it 
! became imbedded in the photographic film- 
1 substance, now draws its further metallic 
'' deposit ^' from the photo-chemical solution. 
The subjective electrons or " deposits " in 
the photographic solution, we explained, be- 
come positive with the introduction of the 
light-image, and respond to its drawing power. 
In this way, we said, the subjective light-image 
draws to and gathers about itself a chemical 
structure or deposit out of the objective or 
positive substance of the chemical solution 
which is now subjectively controlled. 

This metallic deposit, drawn from the so- 
j lution, comes more and more into visible 
evidence until the complete picture is out- 
wardly disclosed. 
4 Speaking now of our imaged thought or 
' form of understanding, we said that its out- 
ward and further development occurs the 

moment it is transferred to the subconscious 

I 

[| levels of our thinking. For purposes of em- 
phasis, we recall the fact that our projected 
understanding or thought undergoes a peculiar 
transformation before it reaches this outward 



104 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

stage of development. Originally it is an 
imaged ohjective tJiougJit of a mental object, 
then passing into our subjective thinking it 
becomes an imaged and impressed subjective 
thought or form of understanding of which 
we become objectively unconscious and sub- 
jectively conscious. ' 
It is this originally objective and positive 
form of understanding, which became subjec- 
tive and magnetic the moment it became im- 
bedded in subjective-thinking, that we now 
find drawing its further deposits from the 
mind solution which we call subsense-con- 
sciousness. These ^^ deposits " of mind be- 
come positive with the introduction of the pro- 
jected thought, and respond to its drawing 
power. In this way, we said, our enfilmed 
subjective thought-image or understanding 
draws and gathers together around itself a 
chemical structure or mental " deposit '' out 
of the objective or positive subconscious sub- 
stance which our thought subjectively con- 
trols. Infinitely rare and invisible at first, this 
^' deposit '' becomes more and more a visible 
process, manifesting as persons, things, cir- 
cumstances and conditions, until the complete 
mental picture is outwardly reproduced. 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 105 

It is difficult to get across to the student 
a thorough comprehensive idea of what is 
really meant when we speak of a subsense- 
consciousness, in which the imaged and im- 
pressed thought sinks itself for the purpose 
of further outward development. We can 
think of the subsense-consciousness as a 
mental-chemical developing solution, and in 
the sense of an imderlying body-forming 
\' mind-substance of such infinite rarity that it 
is inconceivable for us to form any conception 
of it, and from this state we can think of it 
as being embodied in all the forms and expres- 
sions of outward objective life. 

We are individuaUzed^ not indi^ddual iinitSf 
of this siibsense-conscioiisness. We are indi- 
vidiialized only in the sense that we are expres- 
sions or manifestations of it, hut not separate 
from it, so that when ive say owr projected 
thought or understanding is transferred or 
placed into our subconsciousness, it means that 
it becomes sunk not in an indi^ddual subcon- 
sciousness but rather in a universal, unlimited 
ocean of subjective or static consciousness 
everywhere present, and in tvhich we move 
and have our being. It is thus that our 
imaged or projected understanding passes 



106 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

into suh consciousness subjectively drawing 
or pulling to it all that it needs in the sense 
of material, or substance, or ^^ body ^^ for its 
outward development, and from a depth 
limited only by the reaching influence and 
magnetic drawing power possessed by our 
understanding. 

We said in a previous lesson that the density 
of deposit drawn out of the photographic so- 
lution, and which settles upon the metallic 
electrons on the film-substance, depended 
upon the depth of the impression made upon 
the plastic film-substance, and that this depth 
depended upon the intensity with which the 
imaged light strikes the film. 

So also, we said that the density of mind- 
deposit drawn out of the subconscious by our 
understanding depends upon the depth of the 
impression made upon our subjective think- 
ing, and that this depth of impression depends 
upon the intensity with which our understand- 
ing or projected thought penetrates this 
thinking-substance. 

If the formed light of thought is sufficiently 
intense, strong, and sharp, implying a pure, 
full and sufficient understanding or projection 
of the mental object, then its impression will 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 107 

be deep, and, correspondingly, its drawing 
power, when transferred to the subsense-eon- 
seiousness also will be far and deep-reaching. 

Here in these deeper levels our subjective 
understanding recognizes and finds at its dis- 
posal all the unknown and forgotten contents 
and treasures of thought, all the teeming 
psychic activities of life, all the wisdom and 
experience of untold ages which has sunk to 
lower levels in the course of time. It is these 
which contain and which are all the material 
and substance of our subsequent outward 
picture. It is these which are in a subjective 
or static state of being in this ocean until 
" quickened '^ into objectivity by that mys- 
terious transmutation of vibrating energy 
which our illumined thought brings with it, 
and it is these which are drawn to our under- 
standing out of these deeper levels to the level 
of our objective consciousness where they be- 
come the dense " deposit " which settles ujDon 
and around our projected thought. 

In photography certain chemical agencies 
are introduced into the compounded photo- 
graphic solution which, combining with the 
other chemicals in the solution, produce modi- 
fications in the developing process, so that in 



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one instance the light-image will be caused to 
" flash up '' all over at once, " bringing out '' 
the details quickly, and, in another instance 
a certain chemical agent will bring out the 
high-lights of the image first, while the gra- 
dations or modified parts, or details, do not 
fully appear until the general outlines are 
somewhat developed. 

Similarly, in principle, there are mental- 
chemical agents within the compounded so- 
lution of subsense-consciousness, some of such 
infinitely fine and imperceptible elements of 
mind that we can know of them only by the 
mental-chemical actions and reactions going 
on within our own and other minds. Others 
we recognize in the underlying actions and re- 
actions afforded by circumstances, conditions 
and the more visible things of outward life. 

Just as the photographer has access to the 
chemical developing agents, and to the 
knowledge of their application for producing 
his modifications, so have we mental access 
to the mental-mechanical principles, and to the 
intelligence whereby these principles can be 
applied for the purpose of modifying and 
regulating the development of our mental 
picture. 



CHAPTER X 

HOW OUR im^SIBLE THOUGHT 
DEVELOPS OUTWARDLY 

IN the photographic developing process, 
as we previously explained, there are 
present certain physical laws represented by 
time and temperature in developing, quantity 
and quality of the solution, and by the re- 
actions and actions of certain chemical com- 
binations either naturally within the com- 
pounded developing solution or introduced 
into it by the photographer. These laws re- 
solve themselves into formulas for developing. 
If these formulas or conditions are intelli- 
gently provided for by the photographer, then 
his part of the work of further development 
is for the most part completed. Thereafter 
it is not he who is bringing about results. The 
law of development, inherent within the im- 
pressed light-image is at work. It is working 
for Mnij gathering together a chemical struc- 
ture around the enfilmed image of light. His 
attitude becomes one simply of co-operation. 

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110 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

He may lift the submerged film occasionally 
from its chemical bath and carefully review 
its progress, or see if his formula has been 
carried out correctly; he may strengthen or 
modify the solution according to the needs of 
the developing picture, but aside from this 
he knows that his treatment of his photo- 
graphic impression has incited into motion 
the characteristics of the impressed light; he 
has started the process of formulation, special- 
ization, and differentiation which will operate 
unerringly in bringing about a given result. 

In the mental-photographic process of de- 
veloping our reflected and impressed thought, 
there are, of course, certain mental laivs which 
serve as formulas for developing. If these 
formulas or mental conditions are intelligently 
provided for by us, then our part of the 
mental-developing work is for the most part 
completed. Consciously and objectively it is 
not we who are developing results at this point 
of the developing process of our submerged 
thought. The law of development inherent 
within our understanding and within our 
thinking- substance is working subjectively 
for us, gathering together the " deposit '^ 
or infinitely delicate chemical structure around 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE HI 

the enfilmed mental-light which our under- 
standing has become. Our attitude becomes 
one simply of co-operation. 

Occasionally we may consciously take our 
submerged thought-image from its mental- 
chemical bath; we may carefully review its 
progress mentally or see if our visualizing 
formula has been carried out correctly; we 
may strengthen or modify the subjective con- 
dition according to the needs of our develop- 
I ing thought-image, but aside from this we 
know that our treatment has started in 
motion a characteristic of our impressed un- 
derstanding, resulting in a process of formu- 
lation, specialization and differentiation which 
will unerringly bring about the given results. 

Once our understanding-thought has been 
projected into our subconsciousness, it finds 
in this mental-chemical solution an infinitely 
rare, underlying body-substance by means of 
which it can formulate itself, and through 
which it can move and extend itself in the di- 
rection of its outward fulfillment, going be- 
lyond the limits of our own individualized sub- 
jective condition of mind and out into the un- 
limited ocean of Universal Subjective Mind 
in which all of us are, and we can assist only by 



112 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

moving in the direction in which our develop- 
ing thought moves us. 

When we realize that this principle of devel- 
opment is working for us in the manner in 
which we have described, then all anxious 
thought on our part will cease, as to '^ how '^ 
or " when " our thought is to materialize or 
the means to be employed. 

The fact is we should never in visualizing 
attempt to define the manner through which 
our projected thought will make its outwardly 
visible appearance. 

The ten thousand dollars we seek to visual- 
ize may come as the result of the death of a , 
rich uncle; it may come from the sale of a 
piece of property ; it may come from a friend I 
seeking an investment through us, or it may 
come to us through the most remote, inter- 
mediate and unexpected source. 

All that we know, and this with unerring 
certainty, is that the condition, the avenue, 
the means available and susceptible are open- 
ing themselves to provide for the development 
and appearance, on the visible plane, of our 
invisibly developing thought. 



CHAPTER XI 

POSSIBLE TO REVIEW A DEVELOPING 
MENTAL PICTURE 

IN observing the photograplier sitting 
quietly in his developing room, we see that 
occasionally he lifts his picture carefully from 
the pan in which it is being bathed, examines 
it, dips it back again and again in the chemical 
solution and so watches the orderly progress 
of its outward development. 

His action suggests to us the fact that we 
will have this same privilege of reviewing our 
outwardly developing picture. In our quiet 
retreat, our darkened " silence room,'' we will 
find occasion to meditate upon our picture, 
bringing it before us for review as a whole. 
While we speak of our " silence room " for 
this purpose, let us remember always that our 
true '' silence room " and ^^ developing room " 
into which we are to enter, is in that place in 
the everywhere of subconsciousness where our 
picture will be placed, and in every part of 
that everywhere to which our picture may ex- 

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114 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

tend. If our minds are thoroughly trained in 
the habit of inhibiting objective thinking, then 
we will be able to go into the silence of this 
mental developing room of subconsciousness 
regardless of where we may happen to be — 
while waiting at the station for a train, while 
motoring, while afoot on the road, or in the 
woods, or awake in bed, or even while attend- 
ing to the routine of business, shop, or house- 
hold affairs. In fact we see instances daily 
of persons who practice this without con- 
sciously realizing it. We say such persons 
are " absent-minded.'^ This is true. They 
are absent mentally in an objective sense even 
while moving about in street, factory, business, 
or amidst gay company. They are entirely 
oblivious to all outward surroundings and ac- 
tivities because they place themselves in a sub- 
jective condition where they can dwell and be 
with their cherished thought mentally. This 
may or may not be an extreme suggested 
method of keeping watch over our developing 
picture, yet it shows that our whole thinking 
is fixed upon our sunken thought ; we show a 
certain loyalty to it, and " loyalty is that 
quality which prompts a person to be true to 
the thing he undertakes.'' 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 115 

The greatest dreams and greatest visions 
have been thus held before the mind while 
those who entertained them were engaged in 
arduous labor otherwise. There are moments 
given to all of us for reviewing our pictures 
in this manner, little intervals of time, and 
when we enter into the actual technique of our 
work we will not fail to make use of them. 



CHAPTER XII 

DEVELOPING PROCESS CAN BE 
FACILITATED 

THIS reviewing time when we enter men- 
tally into the great chemical laboratory 
and developing region of our subconscious- 
ness to look at our mental picture, ought to 
be made a time of keen alertness and watch- 
fulness ; we ought to observe every friend who 
comes to us ; examine every seemingly chance 
word ; every invitation, every letter, every cir- 
cumstance, every occasion, everything in fact 
which enters into and becomes a part of our 
daily work, play and life, since these are the 
separate and detached yet integral parts, un- 
known to us at the time, which will combine 
to bring about our picture as a whole. 

In this way we are able consciously to co- 
operate in the developing process. We can 
facilitate it, and when we ourselves move con- 
sciously in the directions which become ap- 
parent to us, our understanding-thought will 

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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 117 

become not only a center of attraction, draw- 
ing all things toward it, but a positive men- 
tative force moving in the direction of our de- 
veloping picture; a force which will express 
itself in enthusiasm, interest, attention, joy, 
effort and work. If these supreme moving 
elements are not present in visualizing, then 
our concepts remain mere dreams and, divine 
as they may be, they hardly can be expected to 
come into realization on the physical plane. 

By saying that we must move in the direc- 
tion of our developing picture, it is also meant 
that everything which we do, everything which 
we think or say, must at this time be made to 
suggest or relate itself to the outwardly fin- 
ished picttire of whatever we are visualizing. 
We must say, " I will read this book because 
it may show me the way to get the ten thousand 
dollars I need,'^ or " This will make a dandy 
desk for my business, '' or ^^ I am going to 
buy these curtains so I will have them for my 
home.'' 

As we have alreadv said, we must make the 
mental reality of our developing thought so 
clear to our consciousness, again and again, 
during the intervals of its review in our minds, 
that we will unconsciously and subjectively 



118 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

convey our thought to all other minds subjec- 
tively conditioned, and with whom we come 
in contact, since this is one of the avenues of 
its outworking. 

We must remember that out of ourselves 
our thought has come, so that we are the very 
heart, the very center, the magnetized nucleus 
and the starting point of the projected thought 
which is in process of developing. Through 
us our imaged thought which is sent forth, 
assumes the nature of a fiat, enclothing itself 
in positive statements such as those we have 
just mentioned, and these statements appear 
from our own declarative lips as the first out- 
ward evidence of the existence of the yet 
scarcely outwardly observed picture in our 
minds. Following our declarative words, then 
our clothes, our inclinations, our studies, our 
pastimes, all will begin to accommodate them- 
selves in the direction of our developing 
thought, so that we will begin to wear the tie 
and broad-brimmed hat of the artist before we 
ever obtain the money to attend an art school ; 
we will frequent automobile salesrooms before 
even we have the requisite money to buy the 
auto ; we will read up books on travel before the 
thought of traveling has worked itself out into 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 119 

a possibility, and we will spend our hours of 
pastime among machinery or among men who 
represent the thought of the business or the 
trade which is forming itself subconsciously 
within us. And in deliberate visualizing, as 
we move thus consciously in the direction of 
our developing understanding, we will find 
that other minds, carnate and incarnate, 
forces visible and invisible, or persons attuned 
to our thought by virtue of entertaining a cor- 
responding thought of their own, will uncon- 
sciously or consciously move into the magnetic 
circle of our thought ; they will fit themselves 
into and assist in its fulfillment as we are 
caused correspondingly to fit into and assist 
in the fulfillment of their own. 

In true visualizing we are drawn into the 
lives of others as others are drawn into our 
lives; our thought is the magnetized center 
but in its attraction it draws or should draw 
those only to whom in turn it is attracted, and 
whose purpose in turn it may serve. 

This should be part of our imaged thought 
at all times ; it should be part of the light of 
true understanding of which our thought is 
composed, since in this is contained not only 
the mental ethics of visualizing, but the 
success of our work as well. 



120 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

Finally let us not forget here, that while our 
imaged thought, launched forth into the ocean 
of the very universe of subjective conscious- 
ness, finds every corresponding friendly force, 
carnate and incarnate, visible and invisible, at- 
tracted to it, yet does it also meet at every 
turn, those forces visible and invisible which 
are its opposite in nature and which are ready 
on every occasion to exercise no inconsider- 
able activity and influence against the orderly 
and natural development of that which we seek 
to have become a part of our outward lives. 

These forces may not always be opposing 
forces but sometimes dominating^ self-seeking 
forces. It is well to observe that primitive 
minds of this type are stronger in any mental 
contest for the possession of any object in mind 
based upon a material hasis^ and almost in- 
evitably overcome or come over the minds of a 
higher and more spiritual type. This is be- 
cause the more elemental type of mind oper- 
ates from the basis of pure desire or passion 
and consequently is a more vitalized and posi- 
tive unit in the material direction in which it 
exerts itself. We see this so often displayed 
in the instance of the meek, the harmless and 
innocent who are irresistibly drawn at times 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 121 

into the scheme and picture of the designing, 
the worldly, the selfish and the carnal mind. 
The innocent dove among ns is observed mov- 
ing irresistibly in the direction of the f anged 
serpent ; and the lamb into the very jaws of the 
devouring tiger. It seems to be the sacrificial 
mental tragedy of our upward and outward 
development, and will be so until the time 
when we can warn, protect and defend our- 
selves and others by the more powerful dis- 
solving white light of the spirit against the 
conscious and unconscious mental processes of 
those who for the time attempt to neutralize, 
suspend, and dissolve our own outwardly form- 
ing picture and seek to cause us to step into 
and serve the purposes of their own. 

Somewhat later we will learn just how to 
generate this white light so that it becomes pos- 
sible so to sublimate our projected thought of 
what we want to be, or do, or have, so illumine 
and radiate it, that it becomes not only an 
'^ enlightened ^' thought but an " enlightening 
thought '' containing within itself the white 
light of the higher form of understanding not 
only to guide our thought on its outward 
course, but to " enlighten '' and make bright 
all that through which it moves, dispelling 



122 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

darkness and that which is a part of darkness. 

When this is done, then we will find our de- 
veloping picture shaping itself without inter- 
ruption, and in an orderly and logical manner. 
Each time that we lift it, so to speak, from its 
chemical bath, we will find some further sign^ 
of development, some further trace of its out- 
ward appearance. We will find our under- 
standing as a whole, shaping itself into an in- 
creasingly orderly and beautiful arrangement 
of events, incidents and occasions, following 
one another in uninterrupted logical sequence ; 
and all of them transpiring for the purpose of 
bringing the good desire of our hearts nearer 
and nearer to the point of fulfillment in our 
outward lives. 

Let us remember that in protecting ourselves 
against the subtile interference of other minds, 
we must in turn hold inviolate the principle 
never to include another mind in formulating 
and developing our own thought-picture, no 
matter how self -justified we may feel, or how 
good our intentions, unless we have the full and 
willing consent of that other mind. 

This consideration not only is an ethical and 
moral one in our visualizing work, but a scien- 
tific one as well. 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 123 

A pliotograplier would not make bold to in- 
corporate as a part of his photograph someone 
who objected or refused to give his or her con- 
sent to be ^^ taken " as a part of his picture. 
Newspaper photographers devoid of any con- 
siderations of this kind, and who have sur- 
reptitiously sought by all kinds of questionable 
1 methods to violate the rights of another in this 
\ sense, have brought down the wrath of the of- 
j fended person, and sometimes a libel suit. In 
\ visualizing it becomes a question not of incor- 
porating another person, but another jnincl, or 
part of another mind, unwilling or unsuspect- 
ingly to become part of our own; literally 
attempting in this manner to imprison, de- 
prive, if not to rob the other mind of its indi- 
vidual freedom of action and expression. 

This may be done quite innocently though 
none the less unpermissibly by us. A mother, 
let us say, with the best of intentions may at- 
tempt to formulate a picture relating to her 
boy; a picture which assumes to regulate his 
outward conduct according to her fixed ideas ; 
a lover may seek to visualize the other into his 
or her life to a point where it becomes a men- 
^ tally compulsory force depriving the other of 
free action. A woman may seek to visualize a 



124 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

certain person as a husband, or a man may seek 
to visualize a certain person as his wife ; but 
the moment we do this without the consent of 
the other mind, ive tamper with an independ- 
ent intelligence which normally is also formu- 
lating and outpicturing itself along its own 
God-given lines of independent action and 
understanding ; probably in an entirely differ- 
ent or opposite direction ; and since no two un- 
like thought-images can associate or relate 
themselves subjectively, an impasse results, 
causing mental stress, inharmony, and unhap- 
piness to both minds ; or the involuntary sur- 
render, temporarily, of the one understanding 
to the other. In every instance it is criminal 
and self-destructive of the mind which under- 
takes to misuse the visualizing power in this 
sense, and in deliberate cases the power of 
imaging and seeing is known to have been alto- 
gether lost, bringing about a mental blindness 
in which no outpicturing at all becomes 
possible. 



PART III 
TECHNIQUE OF VISUALIZING 



CHAPTER I 

PREPARING OUR THOUGHT-OBJECT 
FOR REPRODUCTION 

\T 7E have now touched upon all the prelim- 
\ V inaries involved in visualizing and with 
a thorough knowledge of these, we are pos- 
sessed of the secret of our Aladdin's Lamp. 
We know the method of its operation, and we 
are ready to apply this method in bringing 
to us whatsoever in good we want to have, to 
be, or do. 

We have confidently selected a certain 
definite mental adject which by means of this 
method of deliberate visualizing has become 
the ^^ object of our hearths desire/^ It may be 
a much needed sum of money for ourselves or 
for someone whom we dearly love or want to 
help, it may be a home, it may be the establish- 
ment of a business, or it may be any other 
object in life which we want to bring into out- 
ward visibility. 

Our formulating faculties have been at work 
specializing and differentiating our desire, it 

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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 127 

has been placed in the current of our objective 
thinking, and now has taken shape as an odject 
of thought in the photographic studio of our 
objective minds. 

Suppose we take three definite objects, all of 
which can be co-ordinated into what we may 
term the outpicturing of a career. Let these 
objects be five thousand dollars, a business and 
a home. 

I We now begin to condition ourselves men- 
tally for this purpose. Our first consideration 
is the quiet, darkened room in some part of 
the house. This room will serve every mental 
purpose which we have covered in our prelimi- 
nary studies — studio, dark chamber and 
developing room. 

We remember that if such a room is not 
available, then our work can be carried on at 
night in bed just as effectively. In fact, the 
very early hours are best for our work, and 
wherever possible, the student should accom- 
modate himself or herself to these hours. 

Seating ourselves in a comfortable arm-chair 
which will permit the greatest possible relaxa- 
tion, or reclining on a couch, or lying in bed, 
we begin our practical work by bringing the 
,^^ object of our heart's desire '^ — our career — 
ito mind. 



128 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

We recall the fact that this action of the will 
requires as little strenuous effort as does the 
photographer in placing his object in a position | 
where he can photograph it to the best ad- 
vantage. In fact, if the object is truly desired, 
then it is ^' uppermost '' in our minds and in 
that position soon makes its presence felt in. 
our consciousness without any effort on ouv 
part. 



CHAPTER II 

POURING LIGHT UPON OUR 
THOUGHT-OBJECT 

W] must remember that we '' feel '' our 
mental object before we see it. The en- 
tire process involved in establishing a thought- 
object in the mind and photographing it is 
almost so instantaneous that we are not con- 
sciously aware of any stages, and yet it is the 
incitement of the object in our mind which 
makes us " think about it '' and upon it, as 
we sit in our darkened room, and this means 
that a steady stream of our thinking is being 
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in wMch the sun^s rays pour themselves about 
and upon material objects. 

Moved by the gentle heat generated by our 
thinking, our mechanical faculties, the me- 
chanical apparatus of the mind, which we have 
termed our mental camera, imperceptibly 
glides into action, and in this same instant, 
sitting in our darkened room, we behold the 
objects not outwardly but inwardly. 



CHAPTER III 

SEEING OUR THOUGHT-OBJECT IN 
REFLECTION 

TTTE are seeing our objects now, not di- 
f f rectly, but by means of the single inner 
mental eye of the mind's camera which has 
caught up, collected and transmitted the rays 
of our illumined thinking into the illumining 
chamber of our consciousness. We behold our 
objects there and study them by means of 
reflection. 

Wherever we fix our look now in the dark- 
ness of the room — whether upon the wall or 



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ceiling or floor, or when our physical eyes are 
closed, we will see the phenomenon of our ob- 
jects projecting themselves. They will appear 
first as a disc of white light and then slowly and 
gradually resolve themselves into the objects 
contained in the mind. We are seeing our 
mental objects now as projected thoughts or 
images of light, capable for the moment of 
extension by reflection outside of ourselves. 

Wonderful indeed is this phenomenon of the 
projective power of mind but it is only the be- 
ginning of a mental projection which will 
carry our thoughts later on to distances and 
places far beyond the range of our own limited 
vision. 



CHAPTER IV 

POURING MORE MENTAL-LIGHT UPON 
OUR THOUGHT 

AS we sit in our " silence room '' and eon- 
template our thought, we seek to make 
our reflection of it more clear by getting 
*^ more light '' of understanding upon it, since 
the more understanding we can apply the more 
clear the subsequent impression will be. 

Sitting quietly, we bring into play that in- 
formative or illuminative light which has be- 
come part of us as the result of observation 
and experience, or as the result of relating 
ourselves to the Universal Source of All- 
Understanding of which we are a part. From 
whatever source our '' enlightenment '' comes, 
we must pour all of it now at this time of 
reflection so that we may see our object in the 
clearest light possible. 

The thought of money, business, home must 
be so illumined that in reflection we must see 
clearly all that which pertains to it. We must 
remember that we are dealing with things, 

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and that no matter how much we may subli- 
mate them in our visualizing, they are yet 
conditional^ and for this reason they are re- 
lated to circumstances and conditions^ and 
these circumstances and conditions must he 
known and seen and made to conform them- 
selves as a part of the picture of our career* 

For instance, our five thousand dollars may 
not really suffice for the enterprise we have in 
mind; it may be of a nature which will not 
permit much home life; it may require resi- 
dence abroad, and those for whom we are 
planning a home may not want to leave their 
own present environment for various reasons 
which must be taken into account. These are 
circumstances and conditions which enter into 
our picture and upon which the light of our 
understanding must be poured. 

Then too, we must be familiar, by means of 
outward observation and experience, with the 
things which relate themselves to our inner 
picture. If our thought of five thousand dol- 
lars is a vague one, then before we try to see it 
clearly in mind, we must go to the bank and 
ask the teller to show us five one-thousand 
bills, or fifty one-hundred bills, which we study 
carefully, and in this way, we get ^^ more 



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light " upon the money; we are able to see it 
mentally more clearly. 

So with the business enterprise. If it is an 
automobile business we have in mind, we visit 
automobile factories and observe the method 
of building an automobile. 

So with the home. We visit the homes of 
our friends, we become acquainted with the 
various kinds of architecture, the kinds of 
brick and timber, the arrangement of rooms 
and every other detail which will help to 
" throw light '' upon the thought of the home 
which we are contem^Dlating now. 

However, there is a yet finer, rarer light of 
understanding which we will now apply; an 
" enlightenment " which will make our re- 
flected thought of money, business and home 
ever so much more clear for impressive pur- 
poses, and which will bring us ever so much 
more positive results. 

We stimulate this finer light of imderstand- 
ing when in our contemplation we ask our- 
selves, " Why do I want the five thousand 
dollars, the business, the home ? ' ', and when 
we answer this question from the inner spirit- 
ual source of all-light of our being, we bring 
a flood of illiunination upon our projected 
thought. 



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We now begin to see our thought about the 
money, the business, the home in an '^ entirely 
different light," as we say. We see now that 
it is not the thing which we want but rather 
that which the tJiing symbolizes. It is not the 
outer object but the inner object which we are 
in the process of bringing forth. 

What is this inner object or purpose"^ It 
is not the money but the power which money 
symbolizes ; it is not the business but the means 
it provides us for extending our good will to 
others, and for providing happiness to those 
whom we love ; it is not the home, the building 
of brick or timber, but the comfort^ the peace, 
the love, the joy, the domestic felicity, the 
shelter and protection which a home repre- 
sents or should represent. 

The more we see our objects in this light of 
spiritual understanding, the more inspired we 
become, and this inspired thinking provides 
the radiant and luminous mental light where- 
by our object becomes crystal clear to us. 



CHAPTER V 

ESTABLISHING OUR CORRECT \aET\TOINT 

WIAT is more, this finer light of our 
higher understanding enables us now to 
establish our true viewpoint toward our 
thought. 

Unless of an unusually spiritually endowed 
or instructed mind, we would have viewed our 
purpose in securing five thousand dollars, or 
a business, or a home, as the average mind 
views these things. We would have viewed 
them simply as things. We might have looked 
upon the five thousand dollars merely as a 
means to establishing a business for the pur- 
pose of making more money so that we could 
have plenty to spend not only for the purchase 
of a home, but for many other tilings, and 
these tilings we may merely have desired as a 
means of gratifying our pride, our vanity, our 
selfishness, our lust or any inverted or second- 
ary relative cause in mind. 

But now we view our imaged thought from 
an entirely different ^i^ewpoint, so that we 

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know that what we want is really not the thing, 
which after all is a very elementary and lim- 
ited object, involving circmnstances and con- 
ditions, but we want that tvhich the thing sym- 
dolizes or represents ; we want, in so far as the 
money is concerned, the power to be and to 
have and to do the good we have in mind. We 
realize that money is simply the circulating 
medimn, the symbol of value by means of 
which we are empowered to negotiate for that 
which is necessary in establishing our business 
and our home, and for accomplishing those 
purposes which are best carried out in our 
business and home. 

Besides giving us the means of performing 
service, it will give us the occasion to employ 
and help others ; it will make us the means of 
distribution of something which others need. 

In the manner that our money represents 
power, so, as we have already seen, our busi- 
ness represents service, and other mental 
values; and in like manner our home symbol- 
izes comfort, shelter, love, protection, and 
those other qualities which we usually associ- 
ate with the thought of home. 

We think of our home as a place where we 
are going to invite our friends as guests, where 



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they are going to find mental and spiritual as 
well as material comf orts, where we are going 
to exercise all those virtues which will serve 
for our own life-expansion and that of others. 

In a word, we now see these so-called things 
reflected in our minds not simply as things, 
but as the very underlying understanding of 
our being, formed and projected and ready to 
be brought forth into our outward lives; our 
understanding-light has shaped itself into the 
forms of money, business and home, and this 
understanding-light is made up of the pris- 
matic qualities or causes which in this way 
become embodiments of power, service, good- 
will, protection, love, comfort, harmony, peace 
and joy in us and through us. 

Taking this ^dewpoint we need have no more 
concern with the impressiveness of our object 
and its power to reproduce itself. 



CHAPTER VI 

FOCUSING UPON OUR IMAGED THOUGHT 

WTH proper light and a right viewpoint 
toward our thought, we focus our whole 
attention upon it, bearing in mind that we are 
now focusing not on the five thousand dollars, 
the business and the home, but upon the 
qualities of joy, love^ protection, peace and 
happiness of which these mental objects are 
merely symbols. 

These qualities have tahen shape simply so 
that we can see and get their reflection for 
purposes of outward reproduction. 

Let us also bear in mind that this concentra- 
tion does not imply a tension or strained effort 
of the will, but rather an easy and pleasant 
exercise. 

We have said that concentration upon one 
single object of thought does not mean neces- 
sarily that our thought must be comprised of 
only one thing; it may take in a number of 
things so long as they are directly related and 
serve to make a complete picture, and this is 

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so in the instance of the career which we are 
outpicturing. The five thousand dollars as we 
have already said is for the purpose of financ- 
ing our business enterprise, and our business 
enterprise is for the purpose, among other 
good purposes, of providing a suitable home 
for those whom we love. We see how every 
one of these objects is a very essential and 
related part of our thought, and we should not 
hesitate to allow whatever other thoughts of a 
related kind that come to us, to image them- 
selves, and to become, as they will, part of the 
good picture of our career. 

Thus in our thought of the business, we may 
plan perhaps to include a brother ; or a sister ; 
we may make it a corporation in which we can 
include several of our friends ; we may include 
an automobile which will serve both our busi- 
ness and our pleasure. 

What we aim to avoid now is the intrusion 
of any vagrant thoughts which may and will 
seek to enter within the magic circle where our 
one definite thought is held. We must allow 
no fear thought, no opposing thought, no 
worry-thoughts, no alien thought of any kind 
to enter through our mental-camera eye, but 
rather must we keep our eye single to the one 
true thought of our career. 



CHAPTER VII 

IMPRESSING OUR IMAGED THOUGHT 

HAVING the best possible quality and 
quantity of higher understanding re- 
flecting the five thousand dollars, the business 
and the home; having a scientifically correct 
focus and viewpoint, our career now will be 
imaged forth in a form of understanding-light 
which will permit the very finest impression 
to be made upon our subjective thinking- 
substance. 

We have seen that our money, our business, 
and our home is good for us to have, and in 
the moment in which we truly acknowledge 
and recognize this fact mentally, our thought 
will become an impressive one. It will make 
its impression upon us in the finest and most 
definite way possible. The shutter of the mind 
is voluntarily and momentarily lifted, the full 
light of our understanding moves into and im- 
presses itself upon the sensitized film of our 
subjective thinking; it takes on the qualities 
of this subjective thinking and becomes en- 

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filmed and sealed in the subjective; undergo- 
ing a silent, invisible inner development, or 
reduction on its way toward ultimate matter, 
and however infinitely inconceivable this re- 
duction is, we can say that it is now becoming 
a more dense form than the pure form of 
mental light was before impression. We are 
now ready to follow our imaged thought in the 
next stage of its outward development. 



CHAPTER VIII 
OUR THOUGHT IMPRESSION IN SOLUTION 

WE now consider our imaged thought as 
having passed into the developing room 
of subconsciousness; to that place in mind, 
or state of mind which precludes all outer vi- 
brations of objective thinking. 

Let us remember that at this time of trans- 
ference of our thought-image, we are resting 
quietly and in an entirely relaxed attitude, 
mentally and physically. We have entered 
into a subjective mental condition, becoming 



142 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

as nearly passive as possible and refraining 
from any further thinking upon our " im- 
pressed " thought-image. There is no need 
for it. The light of our understanding has 
passed from the objective phase of mind and 
is slowly and gently submerging itself in the 
chemical developing solution of our subsense- 
consciousness. 

The student remembers at this moment what 
our impressed thought really is ; it is a special- 
ized form of mental light ; the light of our un- 
derstanding^ which has become enfilmed or 
^' impressed '' and has now become sunk in 
the very deep of our individualized subsense- 
consciousness where it becomes a " center of 
attraction '^ for the infinitely inconceivable 
polarized mentoids which are contained in 
this chemical solution of mind. 

Eesting in our passive or subjective attitude, 
a great calm comes over us at this moment ; a 
great feeling of assurance and peace, and in 
most instances we fall into a restful, natural 
sleep. That is as it should be. In the few 
moments in which the transference has oc- 
curred, the outer faculties have performed 
their function. The inner subjective and sub- 
conscious phase of mind is now at work and 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 143 

further formulation of our mental picture of 
the money, the business and the home, has 
begun. 

A law of development is at work. It is not 
our individualized objective consciousness 
which is now busy with our career, but our 
subjective consciousness working upon and 
worked upon by our understanding which is 
now gathering together for itself and around 
its delicate form of light the further mental 
chemical structure for its outward manifesta- 
tion. 

Our objective attitude of mind from this 
point on becomes, as we know, simply one of 
co-operation^ and this co-operation is exempli- 
fied best when our thinking and acting in all 
our daily outward affairs is directed con- 
tinually in ways which will facilitate the de- 
velopment of our thought. 

We must have an understanding faith in 
the outcome of our developing picture; we 
must henceforth be true and loyal to the sub- 
jective forces working for us; we must be 
mentally alert to their direction; we must be 
patient; we must help by " getting into the 
spirit '^ of our picture; we must love it, as it 
were, into existence. 



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But separate from this we know that a 
movement of the underlying natural forces of 
this substance of our subconscious thinking or 
mind-solution now has been started in motion, 
carrying our projected understanding or 
thought with them, not only to the very depths 
of our own individualized subconsciousness 
but to all other minds which are for the 
moment subjectively conditioned to our think- 
ing, until our thought is carried out and sub- 
merged into the very ocean of universal sub- 
sense-consciousness, attracting unto itself not 
only other thoughts but taking hold on the 
subsense side of all those things, circumstances, 
conditions and persons that are to be a part 
of its outward fulfillment. 



CHAPTEE IX 



REVIEWING OUR DEVELOPING PICTURE 
FROM TIME TO TIME 

THE whole mental-mechanical and, to an 
extent, the mental-chemical process con- 
nected with the visualizing of our career, has 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 145 

perhaps taken from ten to thirty minutes of 
quiet contemplation and reflection in our 
" silence room,'' depending upon the time 
which we have taken to get comfortably settled, 
and to concentrate upon our object. 

Now, however, since our thought-image is 
submerged, not only in our individualized sub- 
consciousness but in the universal subcon- 
sciousness of whi6li our own is an inseparable 
part, it becomes a matter of development which 
may take hours, days, and even years to ful- 
fill itself, depending upon certain mental laws 
which we apply, as well as upon the various 
modifications of those agencies which will in- 
troduce themselves, and which include our- 
selves, other minds, and those circumstances 
and conditions to which we must react, even 
though we subjectively control them. For this 
reason we have ample time from day to day 
to go into our darkened room which we now 
term our " developing room,'' settling our- 
selves as comfortably as possible, letting our- 
selves relapse into the subjective state 
completely, and spending as much time there 
as we find our moods and daily affairs will 
allow. 

In these moments, we mentally lift our en- 



146 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

filmed- thought of our career from its subjec- 
tive bath, and quietly meditate upon it and 
review its progress subjectively, always re- 
membering, however, that our examination of 
our mental picture is possible at any time and 
anywhere — at a railroad station, in a train, 
or while at work, and if we are true to our 
picture, we will find ourselves doing this, as we 
said before, without being consciously aware 
of the fact. 



CHAPTER X 

WATCHING FOR OUTWARD INDICATIONS 

DAY by day, or night by night, in our 
quiet room or wherever and whenever 
we enter mentally into this subjective con- 
templation of our developing thought, we find 
ourselves patiently and lovingly and yet 
vigilantly watching for the first early outward 
indications and traces of our developing 
picture, knowing that here as elsewhere, we 
must " learn to labor and to wait.^' If we are 
anxious, it is now not the anxiety implied hy 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 147 

fear or worry or doubt about the outcome^ 
but rather an attitude which is best described 
as an attitude of eager expectancy hard to 
restrain ; if we are intense, it is not the nervous 
tension or tenseness of impatience, but rather 
an eagerness to know how our reproduction 
fares, and we know, or should know, that it 
fares well. 

Alone, in our subdued and darkened room, 
which is the best place for reviewing the 
progress of our picture, we sit and examine 
the outward appearing evidences of it, remem- 
bering that our developing understanding 
really is launched forth now beyond the cir- 
cumscribed and limited scope of individual- 
ized subconsciousness; beyond the limits of 
ourselves as units of mind-light, and that it 
is developing as an enfilmed form of mental 
light in that great universal every ivhere of sub- 
jective subconsciousness of which ive are an 
inseparable part, formulating a structure of 
infinitely delicate texture out of this body- 
forming substance every moment and every 
hour now. 

Realizing as we do that our submerged un- 
derstanding is now precipitated in this ocean 
of chemicalized mind-substance which under- 



148 HOW TO MAKE OUR 

lies and pervades all conditions and all circum- 
stances of this outward world, we watch for 
indications everytvhere and in everything; 
looking upon friends, relatives, strangers, 
books, words, occasions and all else which 
seemingly happens to come within the develop- 
ing area of our outwardly forming picture but 
which in reality is attracted to it by the de- 
veloping law which is at work. 

Unexpected persons, perhaps from a dis- 
tance, having affinity or subjective kinship to 
our thought of money, business and home, now 
come to us in a seemingly miraculous manner. 
Seemingly trifling bits of information drift 
into our daily affairs, casual words are said, 
books are loaned to us, letters are received, 
and a hundred and one incidents of a like kind 
transpire, which manifest solely for the pur- 
pose of becoming a part of our forming 
picture. 

As we quietly and meditatively review our 
picture with this fact in mind, we find perhaps 
a first faint indication of its outward develop- 
ment in the appearance of a distant friend 
who comes into our lives and whom we have 
not seen in many years; or of a stranger we 
have never before seen ; or in the form of an 



MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 149 

unexpected letter ; or in the form of a casual 
introduction at the club or elsewhere. 

The distant friend may have returned as a 
man or woman of means, and in the course of 
a conversation may casually mention the fact 
that he or she has some five thousand dollars 
in cash for investment. Probably we are 
asked if we know of a good local proposition, 
and instantly the remark relates itself to our 
own need for five thousand dollars; the 
stranger may be looking to enter into a busi- 
ness in our part of the city or town which is 
similar to that with which our own thought 
is concerned; the unexpected letter may con- 
tain a check which will serve as an initial 
payment on the merchandise necessary for our 
business, and our casual introduction may 
lead to a further introduction to a cashier or 
director of a bank who can provide the needed 
finances. 

Even while the picture of our money and 
business is forming itself in this wise, the as- 
sociated object of a home for which our busi- 
ness will provide the means is also forming 
itself in perhaps a very remote though none 
the less tangible way. Someone may give us 
some tapestries, someone a beautiful set of 



150 MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 

dishes ; a catalogue of homes may come to us 
as the most remote indication; and so, as we 
watch our outworking thought from day to 
day, taking account of it as it were, we find 
our career is beginning to work out most 
wonderfully, yet simply, ^^ just as we had 
pictured if 

There is nothing remarkable, mystical, 
supernatural or even unusual about this 
" working out " of our picture. It simply is 
a chain of sequences or consequences which are 
continually entering into and passing out of 
our lives unnoticed except that in deliberate 
visualizing we become keenly conscious and 
alert as to their appearance and presence, and 
in this recognition we " make the most " out 
of them, as we should. 



CHAPTER XI 

STRENGTHENING OUR DEVELOPING 
THOUGHT 

IT TE must remember that our mental-chem- 
V V ical developing formula calls for the in- 
troduction of all the developing agents which 
will serve to " bring out '' our picture in all 
its clearest and finest details and in the quick- 
est possible time; so that we bring to the de- 
veloping process all the interest, all the joy, 
all the gladness that a keen anticipation im- 
plies. In a word, it calls for feeling^ and every 
bit of feeling that we possibly can generate 
and discharge now into the developing solution 
of sub-consciousness, strengthens it! 

We must " enter into the spirit '' of our 
picture, for this is what our picture actually 
is — SPIRIT — and by spirit we mean that 
true substance of which we have spoken 
throughout our lessons and from which all 
things whatsoever hidden or revealed, are 
formed. 
We must get into the livingness of our 

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career, we must feel its magnetic warmth, its 
life; remembering the fact that with this 
mental-chemical modification, we are bringing . 
into outward manifestation now, not that 
which has no life, but that which is LIFE. 

We " get into the feeling '^ of our picture 
and facilitate activity of development innerly, 
not merely by using our imagination, but by 
our actual outward sense of touch. While 
seated quietly in our " developing room '' we 
take several bills of any denomination and 
pass them from one hand to another, just as 
the bank teller does in counting bills which he 
receives or hands out through the little window. 
We " feel '' the texture of the bills, we " feel '' 
their smoothness or roughness as the case may 
be, and in this way the inward reality of our 
feeling finds itself more quickly correspond- 
ing to the outward reality into which our 
thought of money is shaping itself. 

So with the business which we are develop- 
ing mentally. If it is an automobile business, 
then we want to know how it ' ' feels ' ' to handle 
a prospective customer, and so we talk to our 
friends and try to sell them a machine; we 
wax enthusiastic about the car to such a point 
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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 153 

the automobile on the strength of what we 
say. We can, if we choose, offer our services 
to some sales concern without charge, if neces- 
sary, and in this way we not only '' feel '' 
our way into the business, but we get '' into 
the spirit '' of the " selling game '' as it is 
called. In doing this we must feel the happi- 
ness, the joy, and the interest of selling; we 
must feel that selling automobiles, or whatever 
other outward form our business is to take, 
is the one thing which we have wanted to do 
all our lives, and this means that we love it. 

Let us remember always that our career is 
formulating, specializing, and providing ex- 
pression for itself not only through the brain 
of us but through the heart of us also; so that 
we are introducing into our formula now, not 
only the elements of interest^ joy and gladness, 
but the element of love — the element which, 
charged into subconsciousness, contains not 
only the warmth but the mothering and nur- 
turing qualities as well. 

Happy, indeed, are we if we are able to 
make this mental-chemical charge of love into 
our subconscious developing solution a great 
and overwhelming one; a love for our career 
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it, and ^^ fix '^ our career in a manner wMcli 
will make it permanent and true. Knowing 
the worthy purpose for which our money is 
desired, we are able to transmute and chemi- 
calize our thought of it until our love enters 
into its very metal when it makes its outward 
appearance in our career. So with our busi- 
ness. Knowing the worthy purpose which it 
is to serve in providing the means of happi- 
ness for others, we come to love it even before 
it has materialized outwardly ; and in a simi- 
lar manner we feel the greatest love toward 
the thought of our home. We go to a furniture 
establishment and there thrill inwardly as we 
lovingly handle piece after piece of furniture, 
or this or that rug which we ^^ feel ^^ and 
hnow will be ours in a little while to come, 
even as it is already ours in spirit ; or we walk 
about in other homes and say to ourselves, 
" This is how my home shall be ''; saying it 
not only lovingly but with all the feeling, con- 
viction and assurance which our understand- 
ing faith has given unto us. 

The more of this element of love for our 
career which we can continually pour into the 
solution of our subconsciousness, the more 
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MENTAL PICTURES COME TRUE 155 

substance will be to our attracting thought 
which is taking shape in it, and the more fixed 
and permanent will the outcome be, for this 
is the power and nature of love. 

Let us feel toward our whole developing 
career the same great and overwhelming love, 
the same joy of anticipation, which thrills 
and floods the being of the expectant mother ; 
remembering rejoicingly that the enfilmed 
light of our best understanding, our best wis- 
dom is sunk in the only real substance that is 
or ever will be, and that it is there incarnating 
itself into that which from now on will make 
itself more and more evident outwardly in 
our lives, until the day when our money, our 
business and our home or whatever else in this 
life we choose to see, becomes an outwardly 
accomplished fact. 



CHAPTER XII 

CONCLUSION 

WE would feel remiss indeed if we con- 
cluded these lessons without offering to 
the student a higher concept of the purpose of 
visualizing than that which generally is ac- 
cepted as justification for the use of the 
visualizing power. 

^ We hold this power to be holy and divine, 
a form of the one and only Power which is, 
and in this thought we feel that its use should 
be consecrated, serving first in the divine un- 
foldment of ourselves in good, and then, 
through us, serving in the unf oldment of the 
good in all. 

The very best and the very highest that we 
can ever hope to obtain by the use of visual- 
izing can never carry us beyond this two-fold 
object. In fact, the whole photographic ap- 
paratus of the mind, its imaging and f ormula- 
tive devices, as well as the mental-chemical 
process of development, can only serve, and 
must, even though unconsciously, serve this 
high purpose in the end. 

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How much better then, to carry out this 
object in a conscious way, knowing that we 
are using this power for the very divine pur- 
pose of visualizing ourselves into all that we 
want to be, or do, or have in good, and know- 
ing further that in picturing ourselves thus 
in good we are outpicturing ourselves in God. 
In the very highest sense, we are not only out- 
picturing ourselves in God, but God is out- 
picturing Himself in us and through us. The 
more unselfish we make our object in visualiz- 
ing, the more will this divine unf oldment mani- 
fest itself to us in the outward good or God 
of all. 

It is with this highest concept in mind that 
we leave the student to apply his or her 
knowledge of visualizing to good ends, con- 
fident that the outcome of the picture con- 
ceived in good cannot be anything else but 
successful in its outward reproduction. 



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